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Company of Fishmongers, the Corporation of the County Borough of Southendon-Sea
; were served on the owners and tenants of private layings and were posted
in conspicuous places near the public layings:—
PUBLIC HEALTH (SHELLFISH) REGULATIONS, 1934.
TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London,
the Port Sanitary Authority of the Port of London and the Local Authority for the purposes of the Public
Health (Shellfish) Regulations, 1934, propose to make an Order in the following terms:—
PUBLIC HEALTH (SHELLFISH) REGULATIONS, 1934.
ORDER made by The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, the
Port Sanitary Authority of the Port of London and the Local Authority for the purposes
of the Public Health (Shellfish) Regulations, 1934.
In pursuance of the powers conferred on them by the Public Health (Shellfish) Regulations,
1934, the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, the Port Sanitary Authority
of the Port of London and the Local Authority for the purposes of the Public Health (Shellfish)
Regulations, 1934, hereby make the following Order:—
1. In this Order " prescribed area " means the public and private layings situated on the
foreshores or waters immediately bordering on that part of the Estuary of the River Thames, or any
tributary waters thereof, in the County of Essex between the Northern Boundary of the Parish of
North Shoebury on the East and the Creeks known as Hole Haven Creek and Vange Creek on the
West including the foreshores of Shoeburyness now owned by His Majesty's Secretary of State for
War; the foreshore now owned by the Trustees of the Burges Estate; the foreshores now owned
by the Corporation of the County Borough of Southend and the foreshore now or lately owned by
the Salvation Army, and including also the whole of the foreshores of Canvey Island, the Creeks
known as Hadleigh Ray, Leigh Creek, Benfleet Creek, East Haven Creek, Hole Haven Creek and
Vange Creek respectively and the Sands known as Chapman Sands, Bargander Sands, Leigh Sands
and Marsh End Sands respectively.
2. A person shall not sell or expose or distribute or offer for sale or have in his possession for the
purpose of sale for human consumption any Oysters, Mussels or other molluscan Shellfish taken from
within the prescribed area unless such Oysters, Mussels or other molluscan Shellfish have been:—
i. subjected to a satisfactory process of cleansing at an establishment which is for the time
being approved by the Minister of Health for the purpose ; or
ii. relaid in pure water for such period and in such places as may from time to time be
approved for the purpose by the said Port Sanitary Authority ; or
iii. subjected to a process of sterilisation by steam under pressure for at least six minutes in an
apparatus which is for the time being approved by the said Port Sanitary Authority.
3. This Order shall come into operation on the day of 193 .
Given under the Common Seal of the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London
this day of 193 .
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the grounds on which the proposal is made are
that:—
(a) it is necessary that the control of the Shellfish layings on the Essex shores of the Estuary of
the River Thames should be continued :
(b) it is necessary that the area subject to control should be extended so as to include the
whole area as defined in the proposed Order;
(c) it is desirable that the methods of purification prescribed for Shellfish taken from the area
subject to control should be in accordance with the schedule to the Public Health
(Shellfish) Regulations, 1934.
Any person desirous of making any Representation with regard to the proposed Order should forward
the same in writing, addressed to The Town Clerk, Guildhall, London, E.C. 2, within twenty-one days
from the publication of this Notice.
Dated this 21st day of November, 1935.
ALFRED T. ROACH,
Guildhall, E.C.2. Town Clerk.
Medway (Shellfish) Regulations, 1935.
STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS
1935 No. 1221.
PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND
Prevention of Epidemic, Endemic and Infectious Diseases.
The Medway (Shell-fish) Regulations, 1935, dated December 11, 1935, made by the Minister of
Health under section 130 of the Public Health Act, 1875 (38 and 39 Vict. c. 55) as amended
by the Public Health Act, 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 19) and the Public Health (Regulations as to
Food) Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 32).