APPENDIX M 



PUBLIC HEALTH (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1897 



Powers to be Exercised in Event of Outbreak of Milk-Borne Disease. 



Section 60. — (i) If the Medical Officer of any district has evidence that any 

 person in the district is suffering from an infectious disease attributable to milk 

 supplied within the district from any dairy situate within the district, or that 

 the milk from any such dairy is likely to cause any such disease to any person 

 residing in the district, such Medical Officer shall visit such dairy, and the 

 Medical Officer shall examine the dairy and every person engaged in the 

 service thereof or resident upon the premises or who may be resident in any 

 premises where any person employed in such dairy may reside, and if accom- 

 panied by a veterinary surgeon approved as aforesaid, shall examine the 

 animals therein, and the Medical Officer shall forthwith report the results of 

 his examination accompanied by the report of the veterinary surgeon, if any, 

 to the Local Authority or any committee of the Local Authority appointed under 

 section fourteen to deal with such matters. 



(2) If the Medical Officer of any district has evidence that any person in 

 the district is suffering from any infectious disease attributable to milk from 

 any dairy without the district, or that the milk from any such dairy is likely 

 to cause any such disease to any person residing in the district, such Medical 

 Officer shall forthwith intimate the same to the Local Authority of the district 

 in which such dairy is situate, and such other Local Authority shall be bound, 

 forthwith, by its Medical Officer to examine the dairy and the persons aforesaid, 

 and by a veterinary surgeon approved as aforesaid, to examine the animals 

 therein, previous notice of the time of such examination having been given to 

 the Local Authority of the first-mentioned district, in order that the Medical 

 Officer or any veterinary surgeon approved as aforesaid may, if they so desire, 

 be present at the examinations referred to, and the Medical Officer of the 

 second-mentioned Local Authority shall forthwith report the results of his 

 examination, accompanied by the report of the veterinary surgeon, if any, to 

 that Local Authority or any committee of that Local Authority appointed under 

 section fourteen of this Act to deal with such matters. 



(3) The Local Authority of the district in which the dairy is situated, or any 

 committee appointed for the purpose, shall meet forthwith and consider the 

 reports together with any other evidence that may be submitted by parties 

 concerned, and shall either make an order requiring the dairyman not to 

 supply any milk from the dairy until the order has been withdrawn by the 

 Local Authority, or resolve that no such order is necessary. 



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