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(b) in the case of the Common Council, out of the general 



rate ; 



(c) in the case of the council of a metropolitan borough, 



as part of the expenses incurred by the council in 

 the execution of the Public Health (London) Act, 

 1891; 



(d) in the case of the council of a municipal borough or 



urban or rural district, as part of their general ex- 

 penses incurred in the execution of the Public Health 

 Acts. 

 13. — (1) Proceedings against a dairyman for failure to comply 

 with an order made by a sanitary authority or a medical officer of 

 health requiring the dairyman not to supply milk from a dairy or 

 from any cow in a dairy may be taken before a court of summary 

 jurisdiction either in the place where the offence was committed or 

 in the place where the dairy is situated, and shall be taken only 

 by the authority by whom or by whose medical officer of health 

 the order was made or by the sanitary authority of the district in 

 which the dairy is situate. 



(2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under this Act, 

 and the offence is a continuing offence, the offender shall be liable, 

 in addition to any fine which may be imposed under this Act in 

 respect of the offence, to a further fine not exceeding forty shillings 

 for each day during which the offence continues. 

 14.— (1) In this Act— 



The expression " dairy " includes any farm, farm-house, cow- 

 shed, milk-store, milk-shop, or other place from which 

 milk is supplied, or in which for purposes of sale or 

 manufacture into butter or cheese milk is kept or 

 used ; 

 The expression " dairyman " includes any cow-keeper, pur- 

 veyor of milk, or occupier of a dairy, but shall not 

 include a person who only sells milk of his own cows 

 in small quantities to his workmen or neighbours for 

 their accommodation ; 

 The expression "medical officer of health" includes any 

 person duly authorised to act temporarily as medical 

 officer of health ; 

 The expression " milk " includes cream ; 

 The expression " infectious disease " means small-pox, cholera, 

 diphtheria, membranous croup, erysipelas, tuberculosis, 

 the disease known as scarlatina or scarlet fever, and 

 the fevers known by any of the following names, 

 typhus, typhoid, enteric, relapsing, continued, and in- 

 cludes any other disease prescribed by an order made 

 by the Local Government Board under this Act ; 



