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(a) Causes or permits ice cream or any similar commodity to be manufactured
sold or stored in any cellar shed or room in which there is any inlet or
opening to a drain or which is used as a living room or sleeping room ;
(b) In the manufacture, sale, or storage of any such commodity 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 in-
• fection or contamination ; or,
(c) Omits on the outbreak of any infectious disease amongst the persons
employed in his business or living or working in on or about the premises in or
on any part of which any such commodity as aforesaid is manufactured sold or
stored to give notice thereof forthwith to the Medical Officer of the Sanitary
District in which such business is carried on or such premises are situate ;
shall be liable for every such offence on conviction in a Court of Summary Jurisdiction
to a penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.
Every itinerant vendor of any such commodity as aforesaid, shall, if not himself
the manufacturer thereof, exhibit in a legible manner on a conspicuous part of his
barrow, a notice stating the name and address of the person from whom he obtains
such commodity, and if such vendor is himself the manufacturer of such commodity he
shall in the same manner exhibit his own name and address. Every such itinerant
vendor, who 3hall fail to comply with the provisions of this Section, shall be liable for
each offence on conviction as aforesaid to a penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.
Proceedings for the recovery of the penalties shall be instituted by the Sanitary
Authority for the District in which the offence was committed or of the District to the
Medical Officer of which such notification as aforesaid ought to have been made, or in
which such itinerant vendor as aforesaid shall offer any such commodity as aforesaid
for sale as the case may be.
Copies of the foregoing provisions in Italian and English were left at the ice cream
shops within the Borough by the sanitary inspectors, and the attention of the parties
concerned was directed to the new requirements.
In July, by instruction of the Health Committee, three samples of ice cream
taken at three shops in which the conditions existing were suggestive of the possibility
of contamination were submitted to Dr. W. Bulloch, bacteriologist to the London
Hospital, for examination. The results of his investigations are as set out below : —
The samples were numbered I., II., and III., their source being unknown to the
bacteriologist.
Sample I.—The highest count on the gelatine plate was 8,000 bicteria per cubic
centimetre, the highest agar plate representing 5,000 colonies, pointing to the fact that
the majority of colonies were those of saprophytes only. On both agar and gelatine