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Act of 1902 for regulating the manufacture and sale of ice
creams:—
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.
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 commitfed 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.
As these regulations only came into force in November,
1902, no action has been taken in this Borough at present.
MIDWIYES ACT.—This Act comes into force on the 1st
April, 1904, and provides inter alia, for the registration of persons
acting as midwives, and for the constitution of a central