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1925] 56
SHOPS, STORES, Etc.
(1) The occupier of any room in which any meat is sold or exposed for sale or
deposited for the purpose of sale or of preparation for sale or with a view to future sale,
and any person who knowingly lets any room or suffers any room to he occupied for such
purpose shall cause the following provisions to be complied with :—
(a) No urinal, water-closet, earth-closet, privy, ashpit or other like sanitary convenience
shall be within such room or shall communicate directly therewith,
or shall be otherwise so placed that offensive odours therefrom can penetrate
to such room;
(b) No cistern for supplying water to such room shall be in direct communication
with or directly discharge into any such sanitary convenience.
(C) No drain or pipe for carrying off faecal or sewage matter shall have any inlet
or opening within such room unless it is efficienly trapped.
(d) No such room shall be used as a sleeping place, and, so far as may be reasonably
necessary to prevent risk of the infection or contamination of any such
meat as aforesaid, no sleeping place shall communicate directly with such
room.
(e) Except in the case of a room used as a cold store, adequate means of ventilation
shall be provided.
(2) The occupier of any such room shall not cause or suffer any refuse or filth whether
solid or liquid to be deposited or to accumulate therein except so far as may be reasonably
necessary for the proper carrying on of the trade or business.
(3) Such occupier shall cause the walls and ceiling of such room to be whitewashed,
cleansed or purified as often as may be necessary to keep them in a proper state.
(4) Such occupier and every other person engaged in such room shall observe due
cleanliness in regard to such room and all articles, apparatus and utensils therein.
(5) The occupier of any such room—
(a) shall take all steps as may be reasonably necessary to guard against the
tamination of the meat therein by llies and shall cause the meat to be so
placed as to prevent mud, filth or other contaminating substance being
splashed or blown thereon;
(b) shall not permit any gut-scraping, tripe-cleaning or household washing to be
carried on therein;
(ci) sliali cause every counter, slab, vessel or other article on or in which meat is
placed for sale and all knives and other implements used in connection with
the meat to be thoroughly cleansed after use and to be kept at all times in
a cleanly condition ;
(d) shall cause all trimmings, refuse and rubbish to be placed in properly covered
receptacles kept for the purpose apart from any meat intended for sale.
G. CLARK TROTTER, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Islington Municipal Offices,
Tyndale Place,
Upper Street, N.l.
April, 1925.
Milkshops and Dairies.— At the close of the year there were 568 milkshops
and drtiries on the register, 14 having been added to it, while 20 were
removed.
These received 1,262 visks from the District Sanitary Inspectors, who served
182 notices for the execution of various sanitary improvements and the cleansing
rti dirty utensils.