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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 for many years the Department has
endeavoured to exercise control over those concerned with the vending
of foodstuffs.
With this object, special visits were paid to the neighbourhood
of the Stadium when eight important events took place, and inspections
made of sixty-three vehicles or stalls. Twenty-three making a
first appearance were " warned off " for failure to register under the
Middlesex County Council Act, 1950, or lapses in hygiene, and did
not return during the season. Sixteen summonses for persistent
infringements of the Food Hygiene (General) Regulations, 1960,
were still pending at the end of the year, and one apparently
incorrigible offender was fined, on seven counts, a total of £70 10s. Od.
and £15 15s. Od. costs, with the alternative of thirteen months'
imprisonment. This being the sixth time cases had been proved
by this Authority alone, against him, the defendant announced his
intention of following another occupation in future.
2. CLEAN AIR ACT, 1956 : Section 3 : New Furnaces.
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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