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ICE CREAMS.
Under the provisions of the Ice Cream Sections, Nos. 42, 43 and 44 of the
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1902, which became operative
on 1st November, 1903, any person engaged in the manufacture, sale or storage
of ice cream, or any such commodity, who 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, shall be liable for every such offence, on conviction, to a
penalty not exceeding forty shillings. He is also liable to a similar penalty if
he omits to notify the outbreak of any infectious disease amongst persons
employed by him in the sale, manufacture or storage of such commodity.
An itinerant vendor of ice cream, &c., must exhibit a notice on his barrow
stating the name and address of the person from whom he obtains such
articles, failing which, he also incurs a penalty not exceeding forty shillings.
In 1908 there were 246 premises in the City where ice creams were sold,
as compared with 207 in 1907, and 233 in 1906.

Of the 103 small confectioners, 101 are foreigners.
The number of places in the City where ice creams are manufactured
increased from 57 in 1907, to 109 last year, while 137 dealers obtained their
supplies from other districts, as compared with 150 in 1908. From enquiries
made in other districts, it was ascertained that in all but nine cases the manufacture
was carried on under satisfactory sanitary conditions, and in each of
the cases reported against the purchase of ice cream from them was
prohibited until notification was received that the necessary sanitary improvement
had been effected.
Itinerant Ice Cream Vendors.
In the course of the year 41 itinerant ice cream vendors were found in the
City, an increase of one over last year. It was ascertained that in all cases the
material they were selling was made outside the City.