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It is obvious that without a special inspector for the
duties, it would not be practicable to at all efficiently
carry out the duties imposed upon your Council under
the Factory and Workshops Act, 1901.
ICE CREAM DEALERS
Under the London County Council General powers'
Act, 1902, Part VIII., the London County Council made
the following Bye-laws for the regulation, manufacture,
and sale of ice cream or other similar commodities.
These Bye-laws came into operation on November
1st, 1902, and are as follows :
Any person being a manufacturer of or merchant or dealer
in ice creams or other similar commodity who within the County—
(а) 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 commodity
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.
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