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Other Foods.
There are a number of Factories dealing with food of
various kinds in the Borough, and these,together with the
Retail Shops, Bakehouses and other such premises are continually
under the observation of the District Sanitary
Inspectors.
4,200 visits were paid during the year 1925. There are 45
underground bakehouses.
The Food Inspector, who devotes the greater part of his
time to the administration of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts,
is charged equally with the other Inspectors with the duty of
safeguarding the sale of food in market streets and other
premises where dietary articles are exposed for sale.
Street Trading.
Part VI. of the West Ham Corporation Act, 1925 (which
received the Royal Assent on August 7th, 1925) deals with
street trading, and confers upon the Corporation powers which
are of very far-reaching Public Health importance.
Section 52 states:—"From and after tfre first day of
January one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six it shall not
be lawful for any person to sell or expose or offer for sale any
article or thing from or upon any barrow, cart, stall or other
receptacle occupying a stationary position at a place in the
carriageway or footway of any street in the Borough without a
License from the Corporation authorising him so to do.
Provided that this Section shall not apply to any person selling
or exposing or offering for sale any article or thing from or
upon any barrow, cart, stall or other receptacle which he
ordinarily moves from place to place in pursuit of his trade."
Section 57 states:—" (1) The Corporation may make ByeLaws
prescribing the days on which and the times during
which articles or things may be sold or exposed or offered for
sale under the authority of a licence granted or renewed under
this part of this Act, and making provisions and requirements
with respect to the removal of refuse the allocation, dimensions,
and arrangement of barrows, carts, stalls or other receptacles,
the storage and sanitary supervision (while at the
place of intended sale or exposure or offering for sale) of
'tr icles of food intended to be sold or exposed or offered for
sale under the authority of the license and generally as to the
conditions under which articles or things may be sold or
exposed or offered for sale under such authority.