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the Borough of Holborn. It is in this triangular district that a
considerable portion of the ice-cream sold in London by itinerant
vendors is manufactured. Almost the entire area is open to
criticism on account of a variety of insanitary conditions which
exist, and it often appears that where the construction of houses
or courts is most open to criticism, there the ice-cream industry
particularly flourishes.
During 1902, a determined effort has been made to supervise
the ice-cream industry, not only in the Italian Quarter but
throughout the Borough. A system of Registration was adopted
in 1901, and has been strictly followed out in 1902, with the
result that we have at present 94 registered premises
in which this trade is carried on ; 87 are both makers
and sellers, and 46 of the shops belong to Italians. On and
after November 1st, our position, in relation to this trade, was much
strengthened by the Ice-Cream Clauses of the London County
Council (General Powers) Act, 1902, Part viii., Sections 42-45,
which are as follows :—
Any person being a manufacturer of or merchant or dealer in ice
creams or other similar commodity who within the County—
(a) Causes or permits ice creams or any similar commodity
to be manufactured sold or stored in any cellar shed or room
in which there is any inlet or opening to a drain or which is
used as a living room or sleeping room ;
(b) In the manufacture sale or storage of any such com—
modity does any act or thing likely to expose such commodity
to infection or contamination or omits to take any proper
precaution for the due protection of such commodity from
infection or contamination ; or
(c) Omits on the outbreak of any infectious disease amongst
the persons employed in his business or living or working in
on or about the premises in or on any part of which any such
commodity as aforesaid is manufactured sold or stored to give
notice thereof forthwith to the Medical Officer of the Sanitary
District in which such business is carried on or such premises
are situate ;
shall be liable for every such offence on conviction in a Court of