CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937 — Page 95

No.

Enclosure No. 1.

HONG KONG.

ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1935 (PUBLIC HEALTH FOOD).

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In exercise of the powers conferred by section 5 of the

Public Health (Food) Ordinance, 1935, the Urban Council makes

the following amendments of the heading "Dairies and Milk

Shops" and the by-laws set forth thereunder in the Schedule

to the said Ordinance:

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Amendments.

1. The heading "Dairies and Milk Shops" is amended by the

insertion of the words "Sale of Milk generally and" at the

commencement thereof.

2. The following by-law is inserted, as by-law 1A,

immediately after by-law 1:-

1A. On and after 1st July, 1938, no person shall sell or

expose for sale and no dairyman shall purvey any milk other

than pasteurized milk.

For the purposes of this by-law "pasteurized milk"

means milk which has been heated to, and retained for a period

of not less than thirty minutes at, a temperature of not less

than 145 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale or 63 degrees on the

Centigrade scale and not more than 150 degrees on the Fahren-

heit scale or 63.5 degrees on the Centigrade scale, and which

has then immediately been cooled to a temperature of not more

than 55 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale or 12.78 degrees on

the Centigrade scale.

Made by the Urban Council this 11th day of May, 1937.

C. J. Roe,

Secretary.

Approved by the Legislative Council this

day of

1937.

Clerk of Councils.