3IO MILK AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH chap. 



animal, carcase, meat, poultry, game, flesh, fish, fruit, vegetables, 

 corn, bread, flour, or milk appears to such medical ofiicer or inspector 

 to be diseased, or unsound, or unwholesome, or unfit for the food of 

 man, he may seize and carry away the same himself or by an assist- 

 ant, in order to have the same dealt with by a justice. 



Section 117 deals with the condemnation of the same by the 

 justice, on order for destruction ; and provides for penalties. 



Section 118 provides for penalties for hindering the officer from 

 inspecting the meat, milk, etc. 



Section 119 provides for a search warrant being granted by a 

 justice, on complaint made on oath by an officer of the local authority 

 that he has reason to believe that there is kept or concealed any 

 animal, carcase, milk, etc., which is intended for sale for the food of 

 man, and is diseased, unsound, or unwholesome. 



The powers and scope of Section 116 are extended by 

 Section 28 of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890 : 



Section 28.— (1) Sections 116 to 119 of the Public Health Act, 

 1875, (relating to unsound meat) shall extend and apply to all 

 articles intended for the food of man, sold or exposed for sale, or 

 deposited in any place for the purpose of sale, or of preparation for 

 sale, within the district of any local authority. 



(2) A justice may condemn any such article, and order it to 

 be destroyed or disposed of, as mentioned in Section 117 of the 

 Public Health Act, 1875, if satisfied on complaint being made to 

 him that such article is diseased, unsound, unwholesome, or unfit 

 for the food of man, although the same has not been seized, as 

 mentioned in Section 1 1 6 of the said Act. 



This section has to be adopted like the rest of the Act. 



These sections are of but little use in connection with milk, 

 since milk must be in an excessively bad condition to be 

 visibly unsound, or unwholesome, or unfit for the food of man. 

 A few convictions, however, have been obtained under it, or 

 under the analogous clauses of the Public Health Act, 1891 

 (London). One such case may be mentioned as an example. 

 At Marylebone Police Court, on February 21, 1909, Alfred 

 Massingham, dairyman, was fined £10 for having in his 

 possession, or deposited' on his premises, for the purposes of 

 sale, four quarts of milk which was unwholesome and unfit 

 for food. A sanitary inspector who visited the defendant's 

 premises, saw there a pail containing dirty milk, seized it, and 

 sent samples to a bacteriologist, who reported that the milk 

 contained a large number of pus cells, vegetable tissue cells. 



