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THE FOOD SUPPLY.
Under Part II. of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908, considerable
reforms have been effected in the conditions to which food stored or in course of preparation for
sale is exposed on various premises in the Borough.
The Act came into force on August 1st, 1908, and contains the following sanitary provisions:—
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908.
Part ii.
Sanitary Provisions.
5.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Dairies Cowsheds and Milkshops Order
of 1885 any sanitary authority may remove from the register kept by them of persons carrying
on in their district the trade of purveyors of milk or may refuse to enter upon such register the
name of any person proposing to carry on the trade of a 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 on any ground inconsistent with the provisions of any order or regulation which
is applicable to such premises.
Section 6 does not relate to food, but may be conveniently mentioned here. It authorises the
appointment of women as health visitors and provides for the repayment of part of their salaries
bv the London County Council.
Section 7 requires the provision of suitable and sufficient accommodation for cooking for each
of the families occupying tenement houses. This section is not retrospective and does not apply to
houses which were let in tenements before the 1st day of August, 1908.
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 to future 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 ;
(o) 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 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 ;
(f) Due cleanliness shall be observed in 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 other part of a building.
(is) If any person occupies or lets or knowingly sutlers 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 exceeding for a first offence twenty shillings and for every
subsequent offence five pounds and in either case to a daily penalty not exceeding twenty
shillings.
9.—(1) The Council may make byelaws for regulating the conduct of the businesses of a
vendor of fried fish a fish-curer and a rag and bone dealer or any of them and with respect to the
premises in or upon which any such business is carried on and tho apparatus utensils and
appliances used for the purposes of or in connection with any such business.
The bye-laws to be made under this section will not be retrospective and will not apply to any
of the places under consideration which were in use at the time of the passing of the Act (August 1st,
1908), provided that if alterations are made in the fittings, apparatus, etc., of existing premises,
they shall be made in accordance with the bye-laws. Draft bye-laws have been submitted by the
Council for consideration by the various Metropolitan Boroughs, but have not yet received the
sanction of the Local Government Board.