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Bethnal Green 1908

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1908 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector

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Sub-Section (2) of the same Section empowers the
Local Government Board to make regulations as to
appointment, qualifications, salary and the like, and
Sub-Section (3) gives power for the reimbursement of
the local authorities of one-half of the salaries of such
Health Visitors.
Section 7 deals with the accommodation for cooking
food in tenement houses and appears to provide a
number of provisions for this purpose but, under the
proviso, it is stated this section shall not apply to
any tenement house used or occupied as such prior to
the passing of this Act, consequently this section is
absolutely valueless so far as any existing tenement
house is concerned.
Cooking food
in Tenement
Houses
Section 8 provides a number of regulations relating
to premises used for the sale of food for human
consumption, clauses A to F, and which regulations
may be described as of an ordinary character,
apparently insisting on nothing more than such an
ordinary standard of cleanliness and upkeep as is
already in force in this borough.
Preparation
of Food for
Sale.
Sub-Section (2) provides a penalty for letting or
occupying a building contrary to this section.
Section 9, Sub-Sections (1) and (2), provide a number
of requirements and the application of Bye-Laws to
business premises in which are carried on the vending
of fried fish, fish curing, and the trade of a rag and
Bye-Laws
as to Fried
Fish Shops and
other trades.