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"There certainly would be advantage if Sanitary Authorities had
the power to require the removal from places in which food was prepared
for sale, of conditions which might be regarded as exposing
such food to risk of contamination. With respect to places where
ice cream was prepared, the fact that outbreaks of disease had
occurred from the consumption of this commodity justified a claim
for more complete control than could be shown in the case of other
articles of food."
The London County Council limited their proposals with the
addition of certain words to the Liverpool provisions, and to the
requirement that every itinerant vendor should exhibit on his barrow
a notice showing the name and address of the person from whom he
obtains his ice creams. The provisions are to be administered by the
Metropolitan Borough Councils.
The Liverpool, Corporation Act of 1898 contains the following
provisions, which the London County Council were desirous should
also apply to London, with the addition of the words which are underlined
:—
(1) Any person being a manufacturer of, or merchant or dealer
in, ice creams or other similar commodity, who, within the city,
(a) Causes or permits ice creams or any similar commodity
to be manufactured, sold or stored in any cellar or room in which
there is an inlet or opening to a drain, or which is used as a
living or sleeping room ; or,
(b) In the manufacture, sale, or storage of any such com
modity, does any act or thing likely to expose such commodity
to infection or contamination, or omits to take any proper precaution
for the due protection of such commodity from infection
or contamination; or,
(c) Omits on the outbreak of any infectious or contagious