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concerned, and shall either make an order requiring the dairyman not to supply 

 any milk from the dairy until the order has been withdrawn by the local 

 authority, or resolve that no such order is necessary. 



The local authority may, if the dairy is within the district, require the 

 dairyman not to supply milk either within or without the district, and shall give 

 notice of the fact to the local authority of any district within which they believe 

 milk to be supplied from such dairy. 



If a medical officer certifies that an outbreak or spread of infectious disease 

 is attributable to milk supplied by any dairyman, the dairyman must supply 

 information when called upon by the local authority and furnish a list of 

 customers and invoices. 



Sewers, Drains and Water Supply. It shall not be lawful for any person 

 to throw, or suffer to be thrown into any running water, spring, well, lake, pool, 

 reservoir, drain or ditch the carcase of any animal or part thereof, and any 

 person offending against this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 10. 



BURGH POLICE (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1892. 



This is an Act for regulating the Police and Sanitary Administration of 

 towns and populous places, and for facilitating the union of Police and Municipal 

 Administration in burghs in Scotland. 



The following sections are of interest to veterinary practitioners : 



121. All stables and byres, and areas connected therewith, must be constantly 

 kept in a clean condition by the occupier to the satisfaction of the inspector of 

 cleansing or sanitary inspector. 



122. It is not lawful to deposit, except for the purpose of removal, any cattle 

 dung upon the streets (mews or stable lanes excepted). No cattle dung, wherever 

 lawfully kept, may be mixed with any dung, soil, dirt, ashes or filth declared 

 by this Act to be the property of the Commissioners of Police. 



123. The Commissioners may regulate and limit the time within which all 

 common necessaries and dungsteads shall be emptied and cleaned out. 



126. This Act does not prohibit any person from laying dung on any field, 

 nursery or garden ground for manure, but if the M.O.H. certify that the manure 

 so laid is offensive or prejudicial to health, the magistrate may order it to be 

 removed. 



278-287. These sections apply to slaughterhouses. Power is given to the 

 Commissioners to provide slaughterhouses for the slaughtering of cattle and 

 also to licence slaughterhouses. Sec. 279 provides that no slaughterhouse may 

 be used or erected without a licence. The M.O.H. has to report on the sanitary 

 condition of licensed slaughterhouses to the Commissioners at least twice every 

 year, and he and other authorised persons may enter slaughterhouses at all 

 reasonable times for the purpose of inspecting them. By-laws must be made 

 for the licensing, registration, regulation, and inspection of slaughterhouses, 

 and preventing cruelty in slaughterhouses, for keeping them clean and for their 

 proper construction. If the Commissioners provide a slaughterhouse no person 

 may slaughter any cattle or beasts, or scald or dress the carcase of any slaughtered 

 cattle within the boundaries of the burgh except an animal is killed for personal 

 or family consumption. Sec. 285 provides for compulsory licensing of slaughter- 

 houses for horses, and prohibits the carrying of the carcases of horses within 

 the burgh unless they are covered up. 



DAIRIES, COW-SHEDS, AND MILK-SHOPS ORDER, 1885, et seq. 



This Order extends to England, Scotland and Wales. 



Registration of Dairyman and Others. Every dairyman, cow-keeper, or 

 purveyor of milk must be registered and each L.A. must keep such a register. 

 A cow-keeper or dairyman who makes butter or cheese and does not purvey 

 milk need not be registered. A person who sells milk of his own cows in small 

 quantities to his own workmen or neighbours need not be registered. 



Construction and Water Supply of new Dairies and Cow-Sheds. A cow- 

 keeper or dairyman may not begin to occupy as a dairy or cow-shed any building 



