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2.—Such premises must at all times be kept in a thoroughly clean and
sanitary condition.
3.—All materials must be of a sound and wholesome description.
4.—All utensils used in the preparation of ice cream, &c., should be
thoroughly cleansed and scalded with boiling water before use.
5.— Such utensils should not be used for any other purpose than for
making ice creams, &c.
6.—When in the process of manufacture materials are boiled, freezing
mast take place immediately afterwards.
7.—Such materials, after manufacture, should be kept in clean vessels,
covered, and placed in cool, well-ventilated rooms.
8.—No ice cream or other similar commodity should be kept for a longer
period than 48 hours after manufacture, if remaining then unsold it
must be destroyed.
9.—If any case of infectious disease occur amongst the persons employed
in the business, or living, or working in, on, or about the premises,
in or on any part of which any such commodity is manufactured,
sold or stored, notice shall be forthwith given to the Medical Officer
of Health, Public Health Department, Town Hall, Pancras Road,
N.W.
Any infringement of the above Regulations will be dealt with as the I jaw
directs.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Pancras Road, N.W.
August, 1903.
Sub-Section (b) of Section 42 of the L.C.C. General Powers Act of 1902,
Part VIII., relating to Ice-creams runs as follows:—"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."
In connection with Ice-cream, which is mainly composed of
milk, it is interesting to draw attention to Regulation No. 30 of the Regulations
as to Dairies, Cowsheds, Milksliops, etc., and as to precautions against the
infection and contamination of milk in the Metropolis, as showing the view
taken of contamination:—"30.—Every purveyor of milk or person selling
milk by retail, shall not keep milk for sale in any place where it would be
liable to become infected or contaminated by gases or effluvia arising from
any sewers, drains, gullies, cess-pools, or closets, or by any offensive effluvia
from putrid or offensive substances, or by impure air, or by any offensive or
deleterious gases or substances." There is a tendency in small general shops
to sell milk and ice-creams in proximity to paraffin, blacking, and miscellaneous
commodities, which has to be constantly watched and guarded against so as to
prevent contamination.