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St Pancras 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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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) Refuse 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, and
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.
Power to Council and Corporation to make By-laws with respect to certain Businesses.
9 (1) The Council may make by-laws for regulating the conduct within the
County (elsewhere than in the City of London and so much of the Port of
London as established for the purposes of the laws relating to the customs of
the United Kingdom as is within the County) of the business of a vendor of
fried fish, a fish-curer and a rag and bone dealer, or any of them, and with
respect to the premises in or upon which any such business is carricd on and the
apparatus, utensils, and appliances used for the purposes of or in connection
with any such business.
(2) The provisions of Section 114 (By-laws), of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, shall apply to all by-laws made by the Council under this Section.
(3) The Corporation may make and enforce by-laws for regulating the conduct
within the City of London of any such business as aforesaid, and with
respect to the premises in or upon which any such business is carried on, and
the apparatus, utensils, and appliances used for the purposes of or in connection
with any such business.
(4) The following Sections of The City of London (Public Health) Act, 1902,
shall extend and apply to and with respect to by-laws made under the last preceding
sub-section of this Section (that is to say):—
Section 7 (By-laws to be allowed by Local Government Board).
Section 8 (Penalties in by-laws).
Section 9 (Printing and sale of by-laws).
Section 10 (Proof of by-laws).
Section 11 (Recovery of Penalties).
Section 12 (Appeal to Quarter Sessions).
(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in the said Section 114 of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, or in the said Section 7 of the City of