View report page

97
to get Parliament to consider such a clause. The provisions of the Act
have been brought to the notice of interested persons within the City
by the following notice:—
" The Westminster City Council hereby give notice that Part VIII
of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1902, which will
come into operation on 1st November, 1902, provides as follows:—
" Any person being a manufacturer of or merchant or dealer in icecreams
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 shed or room in
which there is any inlet or opening to a drain or which is
used as a living room or sleeping room;
(b) In the manufacture sale or storage of any such commodity
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 disease amongst the
persons employed in his business or living or working in
on or about the premises in or on any part of which any
such commodity as aforesaid is manufactured sold or stored
to give notice thereof forthwith to the Medical Officer of
the City of Westminster in which such business is carried
on or such premises are situate;
shall be liable for every such offence on conviction in a court of
summary jurisdiction to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings.
" Every itinerant vendor of any such commodity as aforesaid shall
if not himself the manufacturer thereof exhibit in a legible manner on
a conspicuous part of his barrow a notice stating the name and address
of the person from whom he obtains such commodity and if such vendor
is himself the manufacturer of such commodity he shall in the same
manner exhibit his own name and address Every such itinerant vendor
who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this section shall be
liable for each offence on conviction as aforesaid to a penalty not
exceeding forty shillings.
" John Hunt,
" Westminster City Hall, W.C., " Town Clerk.
" 10th October, 1902. "
Proceedings for the recovery of the penalties imposed by the two
last preceding sections of this Act shall be instituted by the Sanitary
Authority for the district in which the offence was committed, or of the
district to the Medical Officer of which such notification as aforesaid
h