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Summary Jurisdiction to a penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.
Every itinerant vendor of any such commodity as aforesaid
shall if not himself the manufacturer thereof exhibit in a legible
manner on a conspicuous part of his barrow a notice stating the
name and address of the person from whom he obtains such
commodity and if such vendor is himself the manufacturer of such
commodity he shall in the same manner exhibit his own name
and address. Every such itinerant vendor who shall fail to comply
with the provisions of this Section shall be liable for each offence
on conviction as aforesaid to a penalty not exceeding Forty
Shillings.
Proceedings for the recovery of the penalties shall be instituted
by the Sanitary Authority for the District in which the offence
was committed or of the District to the Medical Officer of which
such notification as aforesaid ought to have been made or in
which such itinerant vendor as aforesaid shall offer any such
commodity as aforesaid for sale as the case may be.
It will be seen that we now have power to enforce the
following points in relation to ice-cream :—
(a) Ice-cream must be made and stored in sanitary premises.
(b) It must not be made or stored in living rooms.
(c)Strict precautions must be taken as to protection from con—
tamination.
(d) Cases of infectious disease must be reported.
(«) The name and address of the maker must appear on street
barrows.
These regulations are new for London,though they have practically
been in existence in Glasgow since 1895, and in Liverpool since
1898. These Ice-cream Sections in the General Powers (London
County Council) Act, 1902, have been printed as posters and
exhibited throughout the Borough, and, in addition, special
copies in English and Italian have been distributed to every
registered ice-cream maker or salesman in Finsbury.
In addition to the Inspectors' periodical visits, I have made a
number of special inspections, and one early morning inspection,
in order to observe the methods of manufacture. One or two
extracts from my notes may be inserted