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Section 7: To require the owners of premises let as tenement houses,
after the passing of the Act, to provide suitable accommodation for the
cooking of food for the use of each family occupying such house on the
storey or one of the storeys in which are situate the rooms or lodgings
in the separate occupation of such family.
Section 8: To enforce the following sanitary regulations for premises
used for sale, &c., of food for human consumption.
(a) No urinal, water-closet, earth-closet, privy, ashpit or other
like sanitary convenience shall be within such room, shop or other
part of a building, or shall communicate therewith except through
the open air or through an intervening ventilated space.
(b) No cistern for supplying water to such room, shop or other
part of a building shall be in direct communication with and directly
discharge into any such sanitary convenience.
(c) No drain or pipe for carrying off fæcal or sewage matter shall
have any inlet or opening within such room, shop or other part of
a building.
(d) No such room, shop or other part of a building shall be used
as a sleeping place, and so far as may be reasonably necessary to
prevent 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 and 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.
Section 9 empowers the Corporation to make Bye-laws with respect to
the businesses of
A vendor of Fried Fish,
A Fish Curer,
A Rag and Bone Dealer,
or any of them, 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 purpose of or in connection with any such business.