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Ice Cream Makers.—I made 175 inspections of ice cream makers
premises and barrows, and on 21 occasions found breaches of the by-laws as
to dirty utensils, &c. In some cases the proprietors were cautioned by order
of the Public Health Committee.
Daring the year I attended before the Magistrates at the different Police
Courts 41 times in the discharge of my duties.
Harry R. Child,
Inspector of Food and Food Places.
VI.—LEGISLATION.
In the Annual Report for 1909, under Part IV.—Sanitation, § 1 —Inspection,
and paragraph "Staff" a list of General and Special Acts, Orders, By-laws
and Regulations, passed since 1888 to 1909 inclusive, affecting Public Health,
was given.
§ 1.—GENERAL ACTS.
National Insurancr Act, 1911.
An Act for insurance against sickness.
The Rag Flock Act, 1911.
The object of this Act, which came into operation on the 1st of July, is to
prevent the sale and use for manufacturing purposes of unclean flock made from
rags.
Description of Offences.
The Act renders it illegal for any person (1) to sell or have in his possession
for sale flock manufactured from rags, or (2) to use for the purpose of making
any article of upholstery, cushions, or bedding, flock manufactured from rags,
or (3) to have in his possession flock manufactured from rags intended to be
used for any such purpose, unless the flock conforms to such standard of cleanliness
as may be prescribed by regulations to be made by the Board. Any
person who sells, uses, or has in his possession flock in contravention of the Act
becomes liable on summa'y conviction to a fine not exceeding, in the case of a
first offence, ten pounds, or in the case of a second or subsequent offence, fifty
pounds (section 1 (1) ).
Regulations.
The Local Government Board have in hand the preparation of the
regulations.
Duty of Sanitary Authority.
It is made the duty of the Council, as the Sanitary Authority for their
district, to enforce the provisions of the Act within their district. For this
purpose the medical officer of health, or sanitary inspector, or any other officer
whom the council may appoint, is empowered if so authorised by the Council,
to institute and carry on any proceedings which the council are authorised to
institute and carry on under the Act, and to enter at all reasonable times any
premises in which he has reasonable cause to believe that an offence under the