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(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 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.
In November and December, Inspector Benjamin made a
systematic inspection of the premises where ice cream is made
and stored in Battersea. There are 80 premises of this
description; 12 are occupied by Italians. Many of these
places were found to be unsuitable for the purpose and their
condition generally afforded evidence that provisions of the
County Council's Act were badly needed. The following is a
statement of the defects found and remedied.