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PROCEDURES TO OBTAIN PURE MILK 407 



In the valuable Milk and Dairies Bill (see Appendix) 

 introduced by Mr. John Burns most of these defects are 

 eliminated in Sect. 2 of the Bill which was to replace the 

 above section. 



IV. To OBTAIN CLEAN MILK (AND ALSO TO OBTAIN 

 A PURE MILK) 



It is now generally admitted that ordinary market milk 

 is heavily and unnecessarily bacterially contaminated, while 

 most of those who have studied the problem are of opinion 

 that to obtain clean milk additional legislation is required. 

 The structural and other alterations of detail required have 

 been considered in Chapter XVI. and the broad administrative 

 procedures only have to be dealt with. There is no unanimity 

 -as to the methods required to obtain a clean milk supply, 

 and those which have been advanced may be classified as 

 follows : 



(a) Improvement in Existing Administrative Powers. 

 One of the alterations most in favour is the transference 

 of the administration of the legal duties and obligations 

 in regard to milk, more particularly those contained in the 

 Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops Orders, from the District 

 Councils to the County Councils. It is pointed out that 

 these legal powers, if only they were properly carried out, 

 would result in a great improvement of the milk supply. An 

 improvement would certainly result, but we should not get 

 clean milk, only a somewhat cleaner milk. Clean milking is 

 a process, not a thing which can be obtained by regulations as 

 to structural requirements, supplies of water laid on, and the 

 like. It can only be obtained by education in some form or 

 another. Also these regulations are very deficient as regards 

 the cooling, transit of milk, etc. 



While the transference of the duties and powers to the 

 County Councils would no doubt be an improvement and a 

 great advance, it would only go a short way towards 

 the production of clean milk. For a County Council to 

 adequately supervise the dairies and cowsheds, it would 

 be necessary to appoint a large staff of veterinary and 

 sanitary inspectors, while extended bacteriological examina- 



