Remarks by the Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow, on 'Report by Kilwinning Local Authority to the Board of Supervision', in reference to outbreak of enteric fever in Glasgow, and the sanitary condition of dairy farms.

  • Russell, James Burn, 1837-1904.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Remarks by the Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow, on 'Report by Kilwinning Local Authority to the Board of Supervision', in reference to outbreak of enteric fever in Glasgow, and the sanitary condition of dairy farms. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This was referred by the Privy Council to the Local Authority under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, for the County of Ayr, and the following is their reply :— Dairies, &c., Order, 1879. County Buildings, Ayr, 16th February, 1881. 41274. « Sir^—I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 11th inst., which was laid before the Executive Committee of the Local Authority of Ayrshire yesterday. The committee instructed me to mention that the requirements of the above Order have been, and are being, strictly carried out in this county, and that in the particular case referred to, a prose- cution has been directed against the occupant of the dairy farm, for contravention of the Order. The Order has been read and explained by the constabulary to every licensed person throughout the County, and the provisions of the Order have been also extensively advertised and published by handbills. The Executive Committee have, however, now resolved that the regulations and provisions of, and under the Order, be printed and circulated '< among all those registered in the county, and their attention specially directed thereto. I am. Sir, your obedient Servant, (Signed) CHARLES SHAW, Clerk to the Local Authority. The Clerk to the Privy Council, Council Office, London. It will be observed that just as the Local Authority under the Public Health Act had been, according to the Board of Supervision, judiciously and firmly enforcing the law with regard to water- supply and nuisances throughout the Parish, so the Clerk to the Local Authority under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, assured the Privy Council that the requirements of the above Order [Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milk-shops Order, 1879,] have been and are being strictly carried out in this County. This was in 1881, yet the appendix to the Kilwinning Eeport in 1884, shows that the water-supply of 9 out of about 70 farms registered
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