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All ice cream vendors are registered and upon
registration are supplied with a copy of the requirements
relating to their trade. Frequent inspection of
their premises is made both with a view to general
sanitary conditions and the special requirements
relating to the manufacture of ice cream in the
L.C.C. (General Powers) Act 1902. (See appendix H).
In one case only did question arise concerning
the connection of ice cream with danger to health; in
this case neither the purity of the ice cream nor
method or conditions of manufacture were impugned,
an attack of acute gastritis terminating in death
following the consumption of ice cream while in a
very heated condition.
STALL HOLDERS.
In July a letter was received from the London
County Council enquiring as to the desirability of
promoting legislation over the sanitary condition of
barrows and stalls from which foodstuffs are sold.
The need for such powers had certainly never been
experienced in this borough, where quite as a matter
of course the inspectors pay all necessary attention,
in connection with the inspection of foodstuffs, to the
barrows, stalls, premises, etc. from which such foodstuffs
are sold, and have never experienced any
difficulty in the matter.
During the year the question of stall-holders,
particularly butchers, placing meat, etc. on the footway
and roadway as a convenient temporary storage
place was raised and the following letter was sent to
all stall holders trading in food-stuffs.