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(f) " Due cleanliness shall be observed in regard to such room
" shop or other part of a building and all articles apparatus and
" utensils therein and shall be observed by persons engaged in such
" room shop or other part of a building.
(2) " If any person occupies or lets or knowingly suffers to be
" occupied any such room shop or other part of a building wherein any
" of the conditions prohibited by this section exist or does or knowingly
" permits any act or thing therein in contravention of this section he
" shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding for a first
" offence twenty shillings and for every subsequent offence five pounds
" and in either case to a daily penalty not exceeding twenty shillings.
Clause 9. (1) " The Council may make bye-laws for regulating the
" conduct within the county (elsewhere than in the City of London and
" so much of the Port of London as established for the purposes of the
" laws relating to the Customs of the United Kingdom as is within the
" county) of the businesses of a vendor of fried fish a fish curer and a
" rag and bone dealer or any of them and with respect to the premises
" in or upon which any business is carried on and the apparatus
" utensils and appliances used for the purposes of or in connection with
" any such business.
Clause 11. " The Local Government Board may on the application of
" the Sanitary Authority of the Port of London by order extend to so
" much of the said Port as is within the county any bye-laws made by
" the Council under the section of this Act of which the marginal note is
" ' Power to Council and Corporation to make bye-laws with respect to
" certain businesses.'"
SOUTHEND SEWAGE SCHEME.
The Local Government Board held a Public Enquiry at Southend-on-Sea,,
in April, 1908, with regard to a scheme of the Southend-on-Sea Corporation
for constructing a scheme of sewerage and treatment of the effluent before
discharging it into the sea.
By the instructions of the Port Sanitary Committee, the Chairman,
ex-Chairman, City Solicitor, and Medical Officer attended to watch the
proceedings on behalf of the Port Sanitary Authority.