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[1902
PLACES WHERE ICE CREAMS ARE MADE.
So far as can be ascertained there are now 183 places where ice creams
are made, but as there are no means by which the makers can be compelled to
register their businesses it is possible, although improbable, for great diligence
was employed in seeking them out, that there may be a few more. They have
all been visited during the year by your Medical Officer of Health, as well as
by your Chief Inspector. A little trouble was experienced in some cases in
making the manufacturers of these goods understand that the conditions under
which they stored the ingredients from which they were made was unsuitable,
but this was due chiefly to their ignorance of English, which, it may be said, was
sometimes assumed. However, the difficulty was in every case remedied by
giving them an Italian translation of the clauses of the County Council's
General Powers Act 1902 dealing with their trade. There is no doubt that
already there has been a great improvement in the manner in which ice
creams are made, and that before long the conditions will be entirely
satisfactory.
The following is a copy of the circular which was left with each
manufacturer, merchant or dealer in ice creams:—
London County Council.—Ice Creams.
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—
(а) 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.