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47
ICE CREAM VENDORS.
By the London County Council (General Powers Act) 1902, the
local authority, that is the Borough Council, have power now to
contro in some measure the conditions under which ice cream and
similar comodities are manufactured. The extent of this control may
be gathered from the following extract, from the Act referred to:—
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
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 Summary Jurisdiction to a penalty not exceeding
Forty Shillings.