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Deptford 1902

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1902

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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 —
(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
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 afore-
said 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 exceed-
ing forty shillings.