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City of London 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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The London County Council (General Powers) Bill, 1908, includes a
clause dealing with the contamination of food in any premises 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."
Clause 21 of this Bill provides that:—
(a) " No urinal, water closet, earth closet, privy, ashpit, or other like
sanitary convenience shall be within, or directly communicate
with, such room or place ;
(b) " No cistern for supplying water to such room or place shall be in
direct communication with, and directly discharge into, any such
sanitary convenience ;
(c) " ISlo drain or pipe for carrying oft' fcecal or sewage matter shall
have any inlet or opening within such room or place ;
(d) " No such room or place shall be used as a sleeping place, and so far
as may be reasonably necessary, to prevent risk of infection or
contamination of any such article, no sleeping place shall adjoin
and communicate directly with such room or place ;
(e) " Refuse or filth, whether solid or liquid, shall not be deposited or
allowed to accumulate in any such room or place ;
(/) "No act or thing shall be done or permitted in any such room or
place likely to expose any such article to infection or
contamination."
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1907.
This Act was presented by Earl Beauchamp in the House of Lords on the
2nd May last, and after being amended in the House of Commons, was passed
in both Houses and received the Royal Assent on the 28th August, 1907.
The main object of the Act is :—
To extend the provisions of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901,
to laundries carried on by way of trade or for purposes of gain, or
carried on as ancillary to another business, or incidentally to the
purposes of any public institution, and
To regulate hours of employment in laundries ancillary to a business
carried on in any premises which, apart from the provisions of this Act,
are a factory or workshop.