APPENDIX I 



CITY OF MANCHESTER 



TUBEECULOSIS AND MiLK 



By the Manchester Corporation (General Powers) Acts, 1899 and 

 1904, it is enacted as follows ; 



1899 Act, Section 19. — (1) In this section — 



" Dairy " shall include any farm, farm-house, cow-shed, 

 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 cow-keeper, purveyor of 

 milk, or occupier of a dairy ; 



" Medical officer " shall include any person duly author- 

 ised to act temporarily as medical officer of health. 



(2) Every person who knowingly sells, or suffers to be sold, or 

 used for human consumption within the city the milk of any cow 

 which is suffering from tuberculosis of the udder, shall be liable to 

 a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. 



(3) Any person the milk of the cows in whose dairy is sold, or 

 suflered 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 five pounds. 



(4) Every dairyman who supplies milk within the city and has 

 in his dairy 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 addi'ess, and 

 the situation of the dairy or premises where the cow is. 



Any dairyman failing to give such notice, as required by this 

 sub-section, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. 



(5) (a) 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 



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