APPENDIX J 



CITY OF LIVERPOOL— TUBERCULOSIS AND MILK 



Notice is hereby given, that by the Liverpool Corporation Act, 1900, 

 it is enacted as follows : — 



17. — In this Part of this Act — 



" Dairy," shall include any farm, farmhouse, cowshed, milk-store, milk- 

 shop, or other place from which milk is supplied, or in which milk is 

 kept for purposes of sale. 



" Dairyman," shall include any cowkeeper, purveyor of milk, or occupier of 

 a dairy. 



" Medical officer," means the medical officer of health for the City, and 

 includes any person duly authorised to act temporarily as medical 

 officer of health. 



18. — Every person who knowingly sells, or suffers to be sold, or used for 

 human consumption within the Cit>', the milk of any cow which is suffering 

 from tuberculosis of the udder, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ;^io. 



19. — Any person, the milk of the cows, in whose dairy is sold or suffered to 

 be sold or used for human consumption within the City, who, after becoming 

 aware that any cow in his dairy is suffering from tuberculosis of the udder, 

 keeps or permits to be kept, such cow, in any field, shed, or other premises along 

 with other cows in milk, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £$. 



20. — Every dairyman who supplies milk within the City, and has in his 

 dairj' any cow affected with, or suspected of, or exhibiting signs of tuberculosis 

 of the udder, shall forthwith give written notice of the fact to the medical officer, 

 stating his name and address, and the situation of the dairy or premises where 

 the cow is. 



Any dairyman failing to give such notice shall be liable to a penalty not 

 exceeding £2. 



21. — (i) It shall be lawful for the medical officer or any person provided 

 with, and if required, exhibiting the authority in writing of such medical officer, 

 to take within the City for examination, samples of milk produced or sold 

 or intended for sale within the City. 



(2) The like powers in all respects may be exercised outside the City by the 

 medical officer or such authorised person, if he shall first have obtained from a 

 justice, having jurisdiction in the place where the sample is to be taken, an 

 order authorising the taking of samples of the milk, which order any such 

 justice is hereby empowered to make. 



