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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.
We may now hope to have some beneficial influence over the
conditions under which these commodities are made, and the conditions
under which the vendors live. Most of the itinerant vendors
are the manufacturers, and the Act provides that their names and
addresses shall be legibly written on some conspicuous part of the
barrow. This will give us the opportunity of inspecting the premises
where the articles are made, if they reside in the district. I find
already that some of the itinerant vendors of ice creams in this
district reside in other districts; and the reverse state of things no
doubt exists, i.e., that manufacturers of ice creams living in Hackney
ply their their trade in other districts. However, I have no doubt
the Medical Officers of Health will transmit to each other the names
and addresses of such as reside in their respective districts.