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New Requirements for Premises in which Food is Sold or Prepared
for Sale.—The Council issued a circular calling the attention of
occupiers of restaurants, dealers in food, architects, and builders to
the provisions of Section 8 (1) and (2) of the London County Council
(General Powers) Act, 1908, which came in force on the 1st August
1908. The requirements are as follows :—
"(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 futuresale:—
"(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.
"(c) No drain or pipe for carrying off fcecal or sewage mattershall
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 beused
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) Befuse 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 aud shall be observed by persons engaged in
such room shop or other part of a building.
"(2) If any person occupies or lets or knowingly suffers 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."