MUNICIPAL HYGIENE 703 



attributable to milk supplied within the district from any dairy situate 

 within or without the district, or that the consumption of milk from 

 such dairy is likely to cause infectious disease to any person residing in 

 the district, such medical officer shall, if authorized in that behalf by 

 an order of a justice having jurisdiction in the place where such dairy 

 is situate, have power to inspect such dairy, and if accompanied by a 

 veterinary inspector or some other properly qualified veterinary 

 surgeon to inspect the animals therein, and if on such inspection the 

 medical officer of health shall be of opinion that infectious disease is 

 caused from consumption of the milk suppUed therefrom, he shall 

 report thereon to the local authority, and his report shall be accom- 

 panied by any report furnished to him by the said veterinary inspector 

 or veterinary surgeon, and the local authority may thereupon give 

 notice to the dairyman to appear before them. . . . Any person 

 refusing to permit the medical officer of health on the production of 

 such order as aforesaid to inspect any dairy, or if so accompanied as 

 aforesaid to inspect the animals kept there, or after any such order not 

 to supply milk as aforesaid has been given, supplying any milk within 

 the district in contravention of such order, or selling it for consump- 

 tion therein, shall be deemed guilty of an offence against this Act. 



The London Act contains similar provisions to the above, 

 while the Act in Scotland, to which we will presently 

 allude, has more comprehensive powers. 



The chief blot in this legislation is the delay necessitated 

 by legal formalities, while the penalties are far too small. 

 It should be rendered obligatory for every dairyman to 

 supply the medical officer of health with a list of his 

 customers, while for both veterinary and medical reasons 

 he should be compelled to disclose all his sources of 

 supply. 



Under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, the local 

 authority may compel a dairyman to supply information, 

 and produce a list of customers and invoices, if the medical 

 officer has evidence that any person is suffering from an 

 infectious disease attributable to milk. 



If the incriminated dairy is situated outside the district 

 the medical officer acts for, no legal delay results, as he 

 has only to report to the local authority of the district in 

 which the dairy is situated, and they are then compelled to 

 send a veterinary and medical officer to inspect and 

 report. 



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