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CHAPTER IV.
ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE, FOOD AND WATER,
HOUSING, FACTORIES, ETC.
1. HAWKERS AND STREET TRADING. When major
events occur at the Stadium a substantial number of hawkers and
street traders invariably attempt to pursue their calling in the neighbourhood
of the Stadium, and the Department has felt for some time
that those concerned with the vending of foodstuffs and ice cream
should be subjected to strict control.
During the year special visits were paid to the neighbourhood of
the Stadium when important events were occurring, and a number of
unsatisfactory traders were noted. On report to the Committee
decisions were reached to prosecute, not only for failure to register as a
hawker under the Middlesex County Council Act of 1950, but also
under the Food Hygiene Regulations when appropriate. The effect
of this is to secure a larger penalty in the event of a successful
prosecution, and thereby to act as an increased deterrent to unsatisfactory
hawkers of foodstuffs in the Borough.
During the year two defendants were fined a total of £79 0s. Od.
in respect of seventeen summonses, and the Council, in addition, were
awarded fifteen guineas costs. One of the defendants was ordered to
pay within twenty-eight days of the hearing or suffer the penalty of
six months' imprisonment.
No. of events 7
No. of traders inspected 39
2. CLEAN AIR ACT, 1956 : Section 3.
A dual obligation is imposed upon any person who installs a
new furnace in industrial premises or a new furnace of an output
greater than 55,000 British Thermal Units per hour in domestic
premises,
(a) to install only such a furnace which is, so far as practicable,
capable of being operated continuously without emitting
smoke when burning fuel of the type for which it was
designed, and
(b) to notify the local authority of his intention to install the
furnace.
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