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(2) The local authority shall pay to the dairyman for every list 

 furnished by him, under this section, the sum of sixpence, and, if 

 the list contains not less than twenty-five names, a further sum of 

 sixpence for every twenty-five names contained in the list. 



(3) Every dairyman shall comply with the requisition of the 

 local authority under this section, and if he fails to do so, shall be 

 liable in respect of each offence to a penalty not exceeding five 

 pounds, and a daily penalty not exceeding forty shillings. 



Section 54. (1) Every dairyman supplying milk within the 

 district of the local authority from premises whether within or 

 beyond the district aforesaid, shall notify to the medical officer all 

 cases of infectious disease among persons engaged in or in connec- 

 tion with his dairy as soon as he becomes aware, or has reason to 

 suspect, that such infectious disease exists. 



(2) Any dairyman who shall fail to comply with this section 

 shall, for every such offence, be liable to a penalty not exceeding 

 forty shillings. 



These sections will not be operative in the district of 

 any local authority until they have been applied to such 

 district by an Order of the Local Government Board. The 

 expression " infectious disease " means any infectious disease 

 to which the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889, for 

 the time being applies within the district of the local 

 authority. 



The purity of milk, from the chemical point of view, is 

 protected by the various Sale of Food and Drugs Acts. 



THE SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1875 



The sections which include milk within their scope are 

 the following : 



Section 3. Forbids under a penalty that any person shall mix, 

 colour, stain, or powder any article of food with any ingredient or 

 material so as to render the article injurious to health, with intent 

 that the same may be sold in that state. A penalty also attaches 

 to the sale of such doctored food. 



Section 5. Provides that no person shall be liable to conviction 

 under the above section if he can present proof of absence of 

 knowledge of the mixing, colouring, etc. 



Section 6. "No person shall sell to the prejudice of the pur- 

 chaser any article of food or any drug which is not of the nature, 

 substance, and quality of the article demanded by such purchaser 

 under a penalty not exceeding 20." No offence is deemed to be 



