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shop, or other place from which milk is supplied or in which milk is kept for purposes of sale:
"Dairyman" includes any cowkeeper, purveyor of milk, or occupier of a dairy, and, in any case where a dairy is owned by a corporation or company, the secretary or other person actually managing such
"Infectious disease" means and includes any of the following diseases—small-pox, bubonic plague, cholera, choleraic diarrhoea, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhus fever, enteric fever, relapsing fever, measles, and whooping cough:
"Medical Officer of Health" includes any person duly authorized by the Governor to act temporarily as Medical Officer of Health and any person duly appointed as Assistant Medical Officer of Health:
"Colonial Veterinary Surgeon" includes any person duly authorized by the Governor to act temporarily as Colonial Veterinary Surgeon.
3.(1.) Whenever the Medical Officer of Health is of opinion or has reason to suspect that any person in the Colony is suffering from an infectious disease, attributable to milk supplied, within the Colony, from any dairy situate within the Colony, or that the consumption of milk from such dairy is likely to cause infectious disease to any person residing in the Colony, he shall have power to inspect such dairy, and to medically examine any person residing or employed therein whom he may suspect to be suffering from an infectious disease, (unless such person produces a certificate in writing from a duly qualified medical practitioner that he is not suffering from an infectious disease), and, if accompanied by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, he may inspect and examine the animals therein and the carcasses of any animals that may have died therein, and if, on such inspection and examination of the dairy or of the animals or carcasses therein, or on examination or analysis of the milk supplied from such dairy, or on examination of any person employed or residing therein, or on investigation of the sources of the milk supplied to such dairy, the Medical Officer of Health is satisfied that infectious disease is caused or may be caused by the consumption of the milk supplied therefrom, he shall report forthwith to the Colonial Secretary, for the information of the Governor, and the Colonial Secretary shall thereupon give notice to the dairyman to show cause in writing, within such time, not being less than twenty-four hours, as may be specified in the notice, why an order of the Governor-in-Council should not be made requiring him not to supply any milk from such dairy until such order has been withdrawn; and if, in the opinion of the Governor-in-Council, he fails to show good cause, then the Governor-in-Council may make such order as aforesaid.
Power to inspect dairy in certain cases and to prohibit supply of milk.
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shop, or other place from which milk is supplied or in which milk is kept for purposes of sale:
Dairyman" includes any cowkeeper, purveyor of milk, or occupier of a dairy, and, in any case where a dairy is owned by a corporation or company, the secretary or other person actually managing such
Infectious disease. means and includes any of the following diseases-small-pox, bubonic plague, cholera, choleraic diarrhoea, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhus fever, enteric fever, relapsing fever, measles, and whooping cough:
Medical Officer of Health" includes any person duly authorized by the Governor to act temporarily as Medical Officer of Health and any person duly appointed as Assistant Medical Officer of Health:
"Colonial Veterinary Surgeon" includes any person duly authorized by the Governor to act temporarily as Colonial Veterinary Surgeon. 3(1.) Whenever the Medical Officer of Health is of opinion or has ason to suspect that any person in the Colony is suffering from an ectious disease, attributable to milk supplied, within the Colony, from my dairy situate within the Colony, or that the consumption of milk such dairy is likely to cause infectious disease to any person residing the Colony, he shall have power to inspect such dairy, and to medically examine any person residing or employed therein whom he may suspect to be suffering from an infectious disease, (unless such person produces a certificate in writing from a duly qualified medical actitioner that he is not suffering from an infectious disease), and, if ccompanied by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, he may inspect and
mine the animals therein and the carcasses of any animals that
may ve died therein, and if, on such inspection and examination of the ry or of the animals or carcasses therein, or on examination or analysis the milk supplied from such dairy, or on examination of any person mployed or residing therein, or on investigation of the sources of the supplied to such dairy, the Medical Officer of Health is satisfied infectious disease is caused or may be caused by the consumption the milk supplied therefrom, he shall report forthwith to the Colonial ecretary, for the information of the Governor, and the Colonial retary shall thereupon give notice to the dairyman to show cause in ating,
g, within such time, not being less than twenty-four hours, as may specified in the notice, why an order of the Governor-in-Council
not be made requiring him not to supply any milk from such until such order has been withdrawn; and if, in the opinion of Governor-in-Council, he fails to show good cause, then the Governor- Council may make such order as aforesaid.
Power to inspect
dairy in certain cases and to pro hibit supply of milk.
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