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sheds ill the occupation of persons following the trade of cow- 
keepers or dairymen, and the cleansing of milk stores, milk 
shops, and milk vessels used for containing milk for sale by such 
persons. 
Contamination of Milk. 
9. —If at any time disease exists among the cattle in a dairy or 
cow-shed, or other building or place, the milk of a diseased cow 
therein ( a ) shall not be mixed with other milk ; and (&) shall not 
be sold or used for human food ; and (c) shall not be sold or used 
for food of swine or other animals, unless and until it has been 
boiled. 
10. —It shall not be lawful for any person following the trade 
of cowkeeper, or dairyman, or purveyor of milk, or being the 
occupier of a milk store or milk shop, to allow any person suffer¬ 
ing from a dangerous infectious disorder, or having recently been 
in contact with a person so suffering, to milk cows, or to handle 
vessels used for containing milk for sale, or in any way to take 
part or assist in the conduct of the trade or business of the cow- 
keeper, dairyman, purveyor of milk, or occupier of the milk store, 
or milk shop, as far as regards the production, distribution, or 
storage of milk, until all danger therefrom of the communication 
of infection to the milk, or of its contamination, has ceased. 
11. —It shall not be lawful for a person following the trade of 
cowkeeper, or dairyman, or purveyor of milk, or being the occu¬ 
pier of a milk store or milk shop, to use a milk store or milk shop 
in his occupation, or permit the same to be used, for any purpose 
incompatible with the proper preservation of the cleanliness of 
the milk store or milk shop, and of the milk vessels and milk 
therein, or in any manner likely to cause contamination of the 
milk therein. C. L. Peel. 
PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. 
AMERICAN CATTLE DISEASE. 
House oe Commons, Feb. 14th. 
Mr. Rathbone asked the Vice-President of the Council upon 
what grounds the Government had ordered the slaughter at the 
port of landing of cattle arriving in the country from the United 
States of America ; whether any cases of pleuro-pnenmonia had 
occurred among any cattle arriving from the United States 
except those brought over by the Ontario ; how many cargoes of 
cattle from the United States had arrived since that of the 
Ontario ; whether there had been any correspondence with the 
Government of the United States or its representatives, or with 
our representatives in t]iat country oji the subject, and whether 
