190 ADMINISTRATIVE SECTION 



Of course the dairies, cowsheds and milkshops 

 orders, and the regulations made under them, will be 

 advanced as showing the extensive nature of the 

 control exercised over the production of milk, but, 

 apart from urban areas, it is usually all paper control, 

 and even in urban areas they are frequently more 

 honoured in the breach than in the observance. 

 In many rural districts the register is not even 

 complete and there are many cowsheds which have 

 never been inspected. 



In many places no regulations have been made 

 under the orders. It will be remembered that the 

 purposes for which regulations may be made are : 

 (a) For the inspection of cattle in dairies ; (6) for 

 prescribing and regulating the lighting, ventilation, 

 cleansing, drainage, and water supply of dairies and 

 cowsheds ; (c) for securing the cleanliness of milk 

 stores, milkshops and of milk vessels used for con- 

 taining milk for sale ; (d) for prescribing precautions 

 to be taken by purveyors of milk and persons selling 

 milk by retail against infection or contamination. 



Without regulations these matters will certainly 

 not be officially attended to. Further, when regula- 

 tions are made they not infrequently contain no 

 powers dealing with cleanliness during milking and 

 the cleansing of cows' udders and teats. The 

 point, however, which is not sufficiently realized 

 is that when these regulations are made they are, 

 in practically all rural districts, a dead letter as 

 regards cleanliness precaution in milking, and usually 

 also as regards structural requirements. 



The great majority of the members of Rural District 

 Councils are either farmers who are cow-keepers, or 

 persons financially intimately associated with farmers. 

 The officers who have to see the regulations are 

 carried out are without security of tenure, and their 

 salaries are paid by the Rural District Councils, from 

 whom they have to take their instructions as to 



