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The number of premises added to the register during the year
was 6, the removals therefrom numbering 13, leaving a total of 106
at the end of the year. Sixteen notices were served for various
defects, and these, together with the usual notices for periodical
cleansing, were readily complied with.
During the year, the London County Council (General Powers)
Act, 1908, came into operation, which includes the following
provisions in relation to these premises:—
Section 8 (l).—From and after the passing of this Act the
following provisions shall apply to any room, shop, or other
part of 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 future sale.
(a) No urinal, water closet, earth closet, privy or 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 fœcal or sewage
matter shall have any inlet or opening within such room,
shop, or other part of a building.
(d) No 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 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 with 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 part of a building.
If any person occupies or lets, or knowingly suffers to be
occupied any such room, shop, or other part of a building, wherein
any of the conditions prohibited by this section exist, or does or
knowingly permits any act or thing therein in contravention of this
section he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not