REGULATION ATTACKED

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21909, 9 October 1936, Page 10

REGULATION ATTACKED

COOPEftiTION 1 • • \ FAVOURED ‘

health department amK LOCAL BODIES ‘ >lP r

COMMENT BY CHIEF CITt ■ ' ?' INSPECTOR v.

Closer co-operation between eminent departments—the Heay Department in particular—and local bodies in the drafting of regulattojf to be enforced by local authoritki is strongly favoured by the Chair? man of the Christchurch City cii’s by-laws committee (Cr. £. M Andrews) and the Chief City IhtyHM tor (Mr 3. W. Huggins). It is dateej that some regulations are emoaim* sing to local bodies and do not fil their apparent purpose of prtf tecting the public, and it is felt toil local bodies should have an oppcfl tunity of considering health regufc| tions before they are gazetted. % Recently the City Council tested to the Health Departartl about a regulation drawn up byJM department prohibiting the storiM of water in dairies, and the ChM City Inspector was instructed hot jpi enforce the regulation, which is CS®* sidered unreasonable as well trary to public interest. It is ItS by both Cr. Andrews and Mr Huggins that this actum would not been necessary if the departmqdi had consulted local bodies befm making the regulation, and Cr. Aa« drews has since expressed theopta ion that the department should M least’advise the Municipal AssMN; tion —which represents local BO|| opinion throughout the PominiogHj of any proposed regulations, so tip the members of the association nW express their views as to the dfM» bility of these regulations.

Grading and Ptstenrisatto* '-||| Accqrding to Mr Hugging, ttg|| regulation affecting dairies drew the recent protest council is not the only one considered undesirable. Mr Huggins strongly criticia«L £ J|| regulation gazetted in. December last year under the Dairy Industrial Act. He had been amazed M regulation, he said, which made «®| legal for any dairy company to cream obtained from a dairy had not been registered, if cream was graded finest by ; JP|||| company and then pasteurised. ; “Thus a dairy in which the jgWHp tary and hygienic conditions such that the Df?partm«nt culture will not • ■grant can supply a dairy, factory, this -milk or cream is,. .gradedtJMHßi the- pasteurisation of this takes the place of cleanliness arfln farm. Under this regulation a ftjjjl can be so dirty that the will not grant a license for a but yet and pesteunsagMH will enable its S«d wm human consumption. ! “I have, po intention of a controversy as to the merits ,y||| demerits of pasteurisation, but I most emphatic that pasteurisawjßOT should not take the place of ness* An instance has been counted to ne, in waUHK such has happened. In this instsnnK a dairyman had more cream he could sell, and had.to fcBMMWa during the week-end. On the VwjWßj day that cream was obvipusljMlPHß fit for human consumption. taken, however, to a dairy and there graded as ‘finest.* .-•'B jjiHli most likely that this cream 'fWjil be made' into letter, but the f4ME9K lation allows the cream to be JUWM£~ for human consumption. The, yraaK way to deal with such a yejttk|MWßr is to revoke it.” |Sp Eating-House LkfflUlv Mr Huggins went ontejMllHH another regulation, Health Department, relate ing-houses. This regulation stated that on receipt of an twEßaljl tion for the registration. ( house, the local authority r satisfied that the premises WjMjEjMHB accordance with the dciXTOlHßiv requirements should -issue cate of registration. The lUgiairaErw’ was excellent as fax’ as it it did not go far enough. of a certificate was the premises were in order, if a local body knew that the |H&|| prietor of the eating-house dirty habits, it still had refuse a certificate. “In one instance not council 'received an a man of bad repute, but, it to issue a license,” he sald.'*Wfflg» theless the man set up in and the council prosecuted MwnMHs doing so without a license. ThaJMbS. was convicted and the magmjß| agreed that the council had wisely and in the public inMMKjm But the council should not MHHi been forced to take way. -The regulation supported the council. “In such cases as these bodies should have an of pointing out the weMMHH|H of regulations before gazetted,” Mr Huggins my opinion it is the ministering the by-law of ffyßßfca; tion who is in the best PwtfßPMpß know whether. the lation is practicable. and. IWHBHByConstructive and, if necmPP|iHg». structive criticism would be, hWWff pi. beforehand. I may add that case is my criticism dneMSvi against the local officer? departments.” • *