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22 persons in all—were lodged in the shelter in accordance with
the provision under Section 60 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL
POWERS) ACT, 1909.
Part III. and Part IV. of this Act are of significance from a
Public Health standpoint.
Part III. refers to the accommodation for the storage of food
in tenement houses and deals with a long standing grievance. So
often does it happen that, under existing conditions, the coal or
coke, paraffin, blacklead, and other household details are kept in
the same cupboard as the food, or this may even necessitate
keeping the food elsewhere in undesirable situations exposed to
contamination.
Its chief provision is here given—it does not apply to tenement
houses already occupied or erected.
Section 16.—If at any time it appears to any sanitary
authority that in any tenement house within their district sufficient
and suitable accommodation for the storage of food is not
provided for the use of each family occupying such house on the
storey or one of the storeys in which are situate the rooms or
lodgings in the separate occupation of such family the sanitary
authority may, if the provision of such accommodation is practicable,
cause notice to be served on the owner of such house
requiring him within such reasonable time as may be specified
in the notice to provide sufficient and suitable accommodation
for the purpose aforesaid, and any owner failing to comply with
such requirement within the period prescribed in the notice shall
be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding forty
shillings and to a daily penalty not exceeding twenty shillings.
Provided that this section shall not apply to any tenement house
used or occupied as such before the passing of this Act.