APPENDIX L 



BOROUGH OF SUNDERLAND 



Certificates will be granted by the Health Committee to Dairy Farmers, 

 respecting the milk supplied from their farms, if, in addition to complying with 

 the Regulations made by the Council, under the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milk- 

 shops Order of 1885, they also carry out the following Regulations as to the 

 Construction and Management of their Farms and Dairies. 



Construction. — i. The byre must be well lighted, ventilated, paved, and 

 drained. 



(In a well-lighted byre, every part of the byre should be easily visible 

 in the day time with the doors closed.) 



(In a well- ventilated byre the air will not feel oppressively close, or 

 smell disagreeably when the cows are all housed and the doors shut.) 



2. The dairy must not communicate directly with the house, and must be 

 well ventilated. 



3. The place used for washing and boiling the milk utensils must not 

 communicate directly with the house, and must have a proper water-supply. 



4. An efficient refrigerator or cooler for the milk must be provided. 

 Manage?nent. — i. Only cows which pass a veterinary surgeon's examination, 



the examination to include the application of the tuberculin test, must be kept. 

 The veterinary surgeon's certificate for each cow, together with the temperature 

 chart after the application of the tuberculin test, must be sent to the Medical 

 Officer of Health. Newly-bought cows must be kept apart from the others till 

 they have been examined and tested. 



2. The milk must be of first-rate quality. 



(Samples of the milk will be taken from time to time to ascertain that 

 the quality is really first-rate.) 



3. The cows must be kept as clean as possible. 



4. The byre must be kept as clean as possible. The ceiling should be 

 cleared of dust and cobwebs at least every three months, and the walls and 

 ceilings whitewashed every six months. The manure should be taken out 

 twice a day, and the walks and gutters flushed with water. 



5. The farmer must at once notify any case of infectious disease, including 

 consumption, measles, and whooping-cough, occurring on the farm, or in the 

 families of his employees, and take measures, satisfactory to the Medical Officer 

 of Health, for preventing the possibility of the infection of the milk by such 

 case. 



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