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As suggested by the Town Clerk and myself, he was instructed to draw the attention of the
owners or occupiers of underground bakehouses within the Borough to the terms of the Act, and
furnish them with forms on which applications for certificates should be made.
ICE CREAMS.
This Council suggested to the London County Council that the following notice should be
also printed in Italian, and copies of it in English and Italian were posted and circulated
throughout the Borough:—
The London County Council hereby gives notice 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 he 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 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.
G. L. Gomme,
Clerk of the Council.
Spring Gardens, S.W.,
11 th September, 1902.
Much attention was given to the area known as the Italian Colony during the year, and
many notices for the abatement of nuisances were served. All premises in which ice cream was
manufactured, sold, or stored were carefully inspected and the new Act enforced. Many
premises which before the Act were used for the manufacture, selling, or storage of ice cream
will no longer be used for this purpose, and many other changes will be effected by the
new Act.