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Section 6 of the same Act gives power to Sanitary
Authorities to appoint Health Visitors under certain regulations
to be prescribed by the Local Government Board.
Section 7 makes certain provisions as to the accommodation
for working in tenement houses provided that the sections
shall not apply to any tenement house used or occupied as such
before the passing of the Act.
Section 8 provides sanitary regulations for premises used
for sale, etc., of food for human consumption, as follows:—
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 fœcar 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,