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Food Premises.
Section 8 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act,
1908, which came into operation on August 1st, 1908, contains the
following important provisions relating to premises on which food is
prepared or sold.
(1) From and after the passing of this Act the following provisions
shall apply to any room shop or other part of a building within the County
in which any article whether solid or liquid intended or adapted for the
food of man is sold or exposed for sale or deposited for the purpose of sale
or of preparation for sale or with a view to future sale:—
(a) No urinal water-closet earth-closet privy ashpit or other like
sanitary convenience shall be within such room shop or other
part of a building or shall communicate therewith except through
the open air or through an intervening ventilated space.
(b) No cistern for supplying water to such rooms shop or other
part of a building shall be in direct communication with and
directly discharge into any such sanitary convenience.
(c) No drain or pipe for carrying off fœcal or sewage matter shall
have any inlet or opening within such room shop or other part
of a building.
(d) No such room shop or other part of a building shall be used as
a sleeping place and so far as may be reasonably necessary to
prevent risk of the infection or contamination of any such