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Poplar 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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London County Council (General Powers) Bill, 1911.
Part V. of the Bill—Ice-cream—Clauses 24-26, are to repeal Part VIII.
of the 1902 Act and Section 48 of the 1904 Act. The Bill is to make
fresh provisions for the regulation of the manufacture and sale of icecream,
procedure for the recovery of penalties and for the application of
certain provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
Manufacturers or vendors may not make or store ice-cream in
sleeping room or any place likely to render it injurious to health. They
must take proper precautions to prevent contamination, and notify
infectious disease among persons employed.
Names and addresses of manufacturer and vendor to appear on any
barrow or stand.
SMOKE NUISANCES.
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1910,
Part IV.—Smoke Nuisance.
62 smoke nuisances were dealt with during the year:—26 Bow East,
0 Bow West, 10 North Bromley, 4 Bromley Central, 4 East combined,
10 West combined, and 8 Poplar South.
35 intimations and 15 statutory notices were served.
No summonses were applied for.
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1910,
Part IV.
The Act provides, inter alia, that the London County Council may
enforce the provisions of Sections 23 and 24 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, with reference to smoke nuisance, in any special case
in which a sanitary authority request them to do so, and they may also
enforce these provisions in their application to any building or premises
belonging to or used by a sanitary authority.
The Act also empowers the London County Council to expend money
in connection with experiments for abatement of smoke nuisance.