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DAIRY BY-LAWS
1. In these by-laws "Milk" includes cream skimmed and separate milk, but does not include imported preserved milk,
**Disease" means any disease of an infectious or contagious nature, and includes, in the case of cattle, any disease of the udder which is liable to cause contamination of the milk.
2. No person shall carry on the trade of a dairyman unless he holds a licence issued in that behalf by the Urban Council. On such licence shall be affixed the photograph of the licensee and the place or places the licensee intends to use as a dairy shall be entered therein. Such licences shall be issued for such period not exceeding one year as the Council thinks fit.
3. No person shall be licensed until he shall have furnished full information to the satisfaction of the Council as to his residence, the place where the milk is kept for sale, the place where the milk is produced, the place where the cattle are kept, the nature of his water supply, the general suitability of his arrangements for carrying on such trade.
4. Every person so licensed shall at all times afford any Health Officer. Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, or Food Officer free access to every premises occupied by him, whether for the purpose of a dairy or not, for the purpose of inspection and shall produce his licence on demand,
5. Every dairyman whilst purveying or selling milk shali carry his licence with him and shall produce it when demanded by any Health Officer, Colonial Veterinary Surgeon or Food Officer.
6. Every place used by an authorised person as a dairy shall be specified in the licence issued by the Council and a place not so specified therein shall not be used as a dairy by such person.
7. Any building used as a dairy shall be registered annually during the month of January at the office of the Council and every application for registration shall be made in the form to be supplied by the Secretary of the Council.
8. Every dairy shall be adequately lighted and ventilated to the satisfaction of the Council and the floor shall be paved with a layer of not less than six inches of good lime concrete, or not less than three inches of cement concrete composed of one part of cement. three parts of sand and five parts of stone broken to pass through a one inch ring, and the surface thereof shall be rendered smooth and impervious with a layer of asphalt or cement mortar of not less than half an inch in thickness or such other material as the Council may approve. In the case of a place where cattle are kept, the floor shall be raised at least eight inches above the surrounding ground level and shall have a slope of not less than one in sixty and shall directly communicate by an independent drain to be constructed as the Council may direct with a covered cement catch-pit the contents of which shall be removed daily.
9. No water closet, dry closet, earth closet or urinal shall be within, or be in direct communication with any dairy.
10. No building or part of a building shall be used as a dairy until such premises have been approved by the Council as being in accordance with the regulations pertaining to dairies and has been registered.
11 The whole of the interior walls (unless tiled) and the ceilings of the rooms of the day shall be properly lime-washed during the months of January and July of each year.
12. (i) Every dairyman shall cause every part of any dairy in his occupation to be thoroughly cleansed from time to time as often as may be necessary to secure that such dairy shall be at all times clean to the satisfaction of any Health Officer, Colonial Veterinary Surgeon or Food Officer. It shall be scraped and whitewashed when- ever required by the Council.
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(ii) He shall cause the floor of every such dairy to be thoroughly cleansed and all dung and other offensive matter to be removed from such dairy as often as may be necessary and not less than once daily. (iii) He shall keep in or in connection with every dairy in his occupation a supply of clean fresh water suitable for all such purposes as may from time to time be necessary,
(iv) He shall not deposit or keep any milk in any room used as
a kitchen or as a living room.
13. (i) Every dairyman shall cause every vessel and utensil used by him for the reception of milk to be of such material and design as the Council may approve.
(ii) He shall cause every vessel, receptacle or utensil used by. him for containing milk to be cleaned thoroughly with steam or clean boiling water after it shall have been used and to be maintained in a constant state of cleanliness.
(iii) He shall not permit or suffer any person to drink out of any vessel or measure used by him in purveying milk.
(iv) He shall not cause or suffer any animal belonging to him or under his control to be milked unless :-
(a) at the time of milking the udder and teats of such animal
are thoroughly clean.
(b) the hands of the person milking such animal are thoroughly
clean and free from all infection and contamination.
14. It shall be the duty of every dairyman to use due diligence and care to ascertain the presence of sickness or disease upon the dairy premises and to ascertain whether such sickness or disease is of a contagious or infectious nature and he shall be presumed to know of the existence of such sickness or disease, unless and until he shows to the satisfaction of the Magistrate before whom he is charged that he could not with reasonable diligence have obtained such knowledge.
15. Every dairyman shall, when any person residing in his house or being upon his premises is suffering from any infectious or con- tagious disease, give immediate notice thereof in writing to the Health Officer,
16. If at any time disease of an infectious or contagious nature dangerous to animals or mankind or any disease of the udder exist among the cattle belonging to or under the charge of a dairyman or amongst other animals associated with the cattle of such dairyman, he shall notify the same forthwith to the Health Officer or the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon.
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17. Whenever อ Health Officer shall be of opinion have reason to suspect that any person in the Colony is suffering from an infectious disease attributable to milk supplied from any dairy situated within the Colony, or that the consumption of milk from any dairy is likely to cause infectious disease to any person, he shall have power to inspect such dairy and to medically examine any person residing or employed therein and, if accompanied by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, he may inspect and examine the animals therein, and the carcases of any animals that may have died therein.
18. Every dairyman shall take all reasonable and proper pre- cautions in and in connection with the storage and distribution of milk, and otherwise, to prevent the exposure of the milk to any infection or contamination.
19. No dairyman shall allow any person suffering from an infectious or contagious disease or having recently been in contact with a person so suffering to reside or enter upon his premises or to milk any animal or handle any vessel used for the reception of milk or in any way to take part in the conduct of the production, preparation, storage, distribution or sale of milk.
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