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known as Health Visitors) for the purpose of giving to persons advice as to the
proper nurture, care, and management of young children and the promotion of
cleanliness and discharging such other duties (if any) as may be assigned to
them in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(2) The Local Government Board may make regulations prescribing the
qualification mode of appointment, duties, salary, and tenure of office of Health
Visitors appointed under this section, and no appointment of a Health Visitor
shall be made otherwise than in accordance with such regulations.
(3) It shall be lawful for the Council to pay out of the County Fund and
charge to the Exchequer Contribution Account any sum or sums by way of
contribution towards the salaries of any person so appointed not exceeding in
the case of any such person one-half of her salary.
As to accommodation for cooking of Food in Tenement Houses.
7. If at any time it appears to any sanitary authority that in any tenement
house within their district sufficient and suitable accommodation for the cooking
of food is not provided for the use of each family occupying such house on the
storey or one of the storeys in which are situate the rooms or lodgings in the
separate occupation of such family, such sanitary authority may cause notice to
be served on the owner of such house requiring him within such reasonable
time as may be specified in the notice to provide sufficient and suitable
accommodation for the purpose aforesaid, and any owner failing to comply
with any such requirement within the period prescribed in the notice shall be
liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings and to
a daily penalty not exceeding twenty shillings.
Provided that this Section shall not apply to any tenement house used or
occupied as such before the passing of this Act.
Sanitary regulations for premises used for sale, &c., of Food for human
consumption.
8. (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 future sale:—
(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 fœcal or sewage matter shall 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 be used as a
sleeping place and so far as may be reasonably necessary to prevent