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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 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.
There are in the Borough 53 places where ice cream is manufactured,
and each proprietor has been served with a copy of the
requirements of the Act in Italian and in English. Twenty-two
premises were found in an insanitary condition, and by direction of
the Public Health Committee notice was served on each ; so far it
has not been found necessary to take legal proceedings to enforce
the terms of these notices.
CUSTOMS' AND INLAND REVENUE ACTS, 1890 & 1891.
During the year applications were made to me for certificates
under these Acts, in respect of the following blocks of dwellings.
7, Cambridge Circus, Hackney Road. Three tenements.