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(B)—That it is desirable that all places where food is prepared
for sale should be regulated by by-laws made by the London
County Council and administered by the sanitary authorities, and
should be subject to annual licensing by the sanitary authority.
Notification of Births Act, 1907.
That in view of the adoption of the Notification of Births Act,
1907, throughout London, and the provisions of the recent orders
of the Local Government Board with regard to the compulsory
notification of consumption, the appointment of one or more women
health visitors, or women sanitary inspectors, in each metropolitan
borough is eminently desirable.
Chapels of Best.
That it is desirable that chapels of rest, apart from mortuaries
for bodies awaiting inquest, should be established by sanitary
authorities.
That all private mortuaries should be registered and regulated
SANITARY LEGISLATION.
Rag Flock Act, 1911.
An Act to prohibit the sale and use for the purpose of the manufacture
of certain articles of unclean flock manufactured from rags.
The Act makes it unlawful for any person to sell or have in his
possession for sale flock manufactured from rags or to use for the purpose
of making any article of upholstery, cushions or bedding flock manufactured
from rags, or to have in his possession flock manufactured from
rags intended to be used for any such purpose, unless the flock conforms
to such standard of cleanliness as may be prescribed by regulations to be
made by the Local Government Board, and, if any person sells or uses or
has in his possession flock in contravention of this Act, he shall be liable
on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding, in the case of a first
offence, ten pounds, or in the case of a second or subsequent offence,
fifty pounds.