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One of the provisions of this section requires the vendor to exhibit on his barrow the name
and address of the maker of the ice cream. Dr. Annis mentions in his annual report the practice of
some itinerant vendors, who frequent open spaces, of wheeling their barrows to these open spaces and
then removing the wheels from the barrow. In a case heard at the Greenwich Police Court, the
magistrate refused to convict a vendor who had not complied with the above requirement for the reason
that the wheels having been removed from the barrow it had ceased to be a barrow. Amendment
of the provisions of this section has also been found to be needed for the reason that, while the section
is designed to protect ice cream from contamination, it does not afford like protection of the
materials used in its manufacture before the act of freezing. The Council has therefore decided to
apply to Parliament for amendment of the section in these two respects. The medical officers of
health of the City and of Deptford both mention that they have observed a reduction in the number
of itinerant ice cream Vendors upon that found in previous years.
Places where food is prepared for sale have been to a considerable extent inspected in
recent years as workplaces under the Factory and Workshop Act. The inspections in 1909 related
also to the exercise of the powers conferred upon sanitary authorities by section 8 of the Council's
General Powers Act, 1908, for regulating the conditions under which food is prepared for sale, so as
to protect it from contamination, and, as will be seen from the following table, a large amount of
inspection of these premises has been carried out during the year. The medical officer of health of
Hampstead, who refers to these provisions as "much needed powers," states that, in a considerable
number of cases conditions were found that were in contravention of the Act. During the year 19
premises were altered, and many other premises were being altered to bring them into compliance
with the Act. In the same way, steps" were taken in other districts for the removal of dirty and
unwholesome conditions in the many restaurants, eating houses, cookshops and other premises in
London in which food is prepared for sale.

* Other than bakehouses, milkshops, slaughterhouses, and iee-cream premises.