Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1908 including annual report on factories and workshops
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or purveyors of milk, or may refuse to enter upon such register the name
of any person carrying on, or proposing to carry on, the trade of a dairyman
or purveyor of milk, upon premises which are, in the opinion of
such sanitary authority, for any reason unsuitable for the
sale of milk therein. Provided that for the purposes of this section,
premises shall not be deemed to be unsuitable for the sale of milk therein
on any ground inconsistent with the provisions or requirements of any
order or regulation made under any enactment for the time being in force
and applicable to such premises.
(2.) Any person, who thinks himself aggrieved by any decision of
a sanitary authority under the provisions of this section may, at any time
within twenty-one days from the date of such decision, appeal against the
same to a court of summary jurisdiction and, if on any such appeal it
shall appear to the court that the premises of the person appealing are in
all respects suitable for the sale of milk therein, the court may make an
order requiring such authority to enter upon or restore in the register the
name of such person.
Section 8. (1.) From and after the passing of this Act the following
provisions shall apply to any room, shop or other part of a building
within the county in which any article, whether solid or liquid, intended
or adapted for the food of man is sold or exposed for sale, or deposited
for the purpose of sale, or of preparation for sale or with a view of further
sale:—
(a) No urinal, water-closet, earth-closet, privy, ashpit, or other like sanitary
convenience shall be within such room, shop or other part of a building, or
shall communicate therewith except through the open air or through an
intervening ventilated space:
(b) No cistern for supplying water to such room, shop or other part of
a building, shall be in direct communication with and directly discharge
into any such sanitary convenience:
(c) No drain or pipe for carrying off fœal or sewage matter shall have
any inlet or opening within such room, shop or other part of a building:
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 an intervening ventilated space:
(e) Refuse or 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: