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Greenwich 1902

The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1902

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"METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF GREENWICH.
"Ice Creams.
"Notice is hereby given that Part VIII. of the London
County Council (General Powers) Act, 1902, which will come into
operation on 1st November, 1902, provides as follows: —
"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.