Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1903
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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 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.
The duty of obtaining the necessary information
for the registration of premises upon which ice creams
are made has been carried out by Sanitary Inspector
S. Huggons Brown. At the present time there are 141
premises upon the register and 67 notices have been
served, all of which have been complied with.
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