§ 29. Mr. GROVESasked the Minister of Health whether he has received representations from certain local authorities urging legislation to effect greater precautions against the possible spread of disease in connection with milk distribution; whether he is aware that it is the considered judgment of the medical advisers of the Bethnal Green Metropolitan Borough Council that a recent outbreak of typhoid fever in that area was due to a specific human source and milk-borne, whether he will make it obligatory that all principals and employés in dairy businesses should give notice to the local medical officer of health on the occasion of any illness affecting them and abstain from duty; and will he arrange for a systematic medical inspection of all persons connected with the production and distribution of liquid milk?
32. Captain ARTHUR EVANSasked the Minister of Health if he will introduce legislation early in the next Session making it compulsory for dairymen, cow-keepers, and milkvendors to give immediate notice to the local authority of illness of any kind occurring among the principals or employés connected with the production, handling, and distribution of milk, with the object of preventing the spread of infectious disease?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe answer to the first two parts of the question is in the affirmative. The suggestions contained in the third and fourth parts of the question will be considered in connection with the Milk and Dairies Orders to be made under the Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915, when that Act comes into operation.