Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1902 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Any person being a manufacturer of or merchant or dealer in ice
creams or other similar commodity who within the County—
('/) 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;
(6) 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 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