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Ice Creams.
One hundred and seventeen places where ice creams are
made, sold or stored were registered and frequently inspected*.
Proceedings under the London County Council General
Powers Act, 1902, were taken against two ice cream vendors for
manufacturing ice creams in a sleeping room, the mixture
intended to be frozen in the morning having been found at midnight
in an ill-ventilated room occupied by five persons.
Proceedings were also taken by the Council, under the
Public Health (London) Act, against the occupier of a confectionery
shop for obstructing one of their Sanitary Inspectors
by refusing to allow him to inspect her premises upon which it
was believed that ice creams were manufactured, there being a
notice in the window that they were sold there. The summons
was dismissed with two guineas costs against the
Council, the Magistrate holding that the refusal or failure of an
occupier to admit an inspector could only be made the subject
of a penalty if it were proved that such refusal was made with
a view to preventing the discovery of some contravention of the
Public Health (London) Act. In view of this and other
somewhat similar cases the London County Council is endeavouring
to secure further legislation so as to give the
sanitary authority power to examine premises where food is
prepared or stored and to require the removal of conditions
which are likely to give rise to contamination.
Unsound Food.
The stalls and shops where food is sold or stored have been
regularly inspected.
Proceedings were taken in three instances in respect of
unsound fruit, and in two in respect of unsound fish exposed
for sale. Convictions were obtained in four cases and penalties
amounting to £14 and £3 costs imposed, while in one case the