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45. The provisions of this part of this Act shall not come into operation
until the expiration of a period of three months from the date of the passing
of this Act and during such period of three months the Council shall cause
to be given public not ice of the effect of the provisions of this part of this Act
by advertisement in two or more London daily newspapers in two successive
weeks and by handbills and otherwise in such manner as they think sufficient.
It will be seen that the powers are to be exercised by each Sanitary Authority
within its own area, but that by Section 45 general notice of the provisions
of the Act are to be given by advertisement and otherwise by the County
Council.
In view of the importance of the question, a copy of the following Notice
was handed in the month of September to the proprietors of each of the 141
shops where ice creams are sold in the City. Similar Notices were exhibited
at the several City Police Stations by the courtesy of the Commissioner of
Police. It was also duly advertised in the Press:—
ICE CREAMS.
This is to give Notice that on and after 1st November next, the
following statutory provisions will come into operation in the City of
London:—
(1) Any person being a manufacturer of or merchant or dealer in ice
creams or other similar commodity who within the City of London:—
(а) Causes or permits ice creams or any similar commodity to be
manufactured sold or stored in any cellar shed or room in which
there is any inlet or opening to a drain or which is used as a living
room or sleeping room;
(б) 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; or
(c) Omits on the outbreak of any infectious disease amongst the
persons employed in his business or living or working in on or about
the premises in or on any part of which any such commodity as
aforesaid is manufactured sold or stored to give notice thereof
forthwith to the Medical Officer of the City of London in which such
business is carried on or such premises are situate;
shall be liable for every such offence on conviction in a Court of Summary
Jurisdiction to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings.