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(d) No such room, shop or other part of a building shall
be used as a sleeping place, and so far as may be reasonably
necessary to prevent risk of the infection or contamination
of any such article as aforesaid, no sleeping place shall
adjoin such room, shop or other part of a building and communicate
therewith, except through the open air or through
in intervening ventilated space.
(e) Refuse and filth, whether solid or liquid, shall not be
deposited or allowed to accumulate in any such room, shop
or other part of a building, except so far as may be reasonably
necessary for the proper carrying on of trade or
business.
(f) Due cleanliness shall be observed in regard to such
room, shop or other part of a building, and all articles, apparatus
and utensils therein, and shall be observed by persons
engaged in such room, shop, or other part of a building.
Section xii. of the same Act gives Sanitary Authorities, or
any officer or person duly authorised by them, the right to enter
at all reasonable times any house, building or premises in the
district of such Sanitary Authority, for the purpose of examining
whether there is any contravention of the foregoing provisions
of the Act, or of any by-law made thereunder, or any non-compliance
with the requirements of any notice given thereunder
respectively.
This is a very useful provision, as it may be remembered
that in 1903 a summons taken out by the Council 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, was dismissed with costs against the Council,
the magistrate holding that the refusal or failure to admit could
only be made the subject of a penalty if it were proved that such
refusal was made with the view to preventing the discovery of
some contravention of the Public Health (London) Act.