MILK LEGISLATION IN SCOTLAND 469 



Legislation in Scotland 



In Scotland the most recent Public Health Act in the United 

 Kingdom is now in force.^ It contains a clause with regard to 

 inspection, examination, and seizure of food similar to Section 

 47 of the London Act, 1891. Another Section (58) is most 

 valuable, and provides amongst other things that any person 

 suffering from infectious disease or living in an infected house 

 shall not milk any animal. Section 60 is constructed on the 

 basis of Section 71 of the London Act, 1891, but with these two 

 important differences, namely, that an order from a justice is 

 unnecessary and that the medical officer may act, if he thinks the 

 " milk from any such dairy is likely to cause disease and not only 

 has caused disease." This is a great advance, and other modifica- 

 tions in these important clauses are of such a nature as greatly 

 to expedite the preventive operations. Further, another clause 

 (Section 61) gives the local authority most useful powers in the 

 event of an outbreak of milk-borne disease, in the direction of 

 rapidly acquiring information from dairymen of their customers 

 on the one hand, and their supplying farmers on the other. At 

 the present time the milk clauses in this Act are the most advanced 

 general legal enactments in the United Kingdom in respect to 

 this matter, and they are, we understand, working well. 



The following are the general Acts bearing on the subject : — 

 (i) Cattlesheds in Burghs (Scotland) Act, 1866. 



(2) Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878, Section 34. 



(3) Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1886, Section 9. 



(4) Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1 897. 



(5) Sale of Food and Drug Acts, 1875 to 1899. 



The before-mentioned sections of the Contagious Diseases 

 (Animals) Acts were the only sections unrepealed. Following on 

 these Acts there were issued : — 



(a) The Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milk-shops Order of 1885 by 



the Privy Council ; 

 {b) The Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milk-shops Amending Order of 



1887 by the Board of Supervision ; and 

 (r) The Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops Order of 1899 by 



the Local Government Board for Scotland. 



Under the Orders of 1885 and 1887, the Privy Council and the 

 Local Government Board respectively had merely to satisfy them- 



1 See Appendix M, p. 578 ; Public Health {Scotland) Act, 1897, Sees. 60, 61. 



