Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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(e) shall not place or cause to be placed any meat on, or
within eighteen inches of the ground or floor, unless the meat
is placed in a closed cupboard or other adequately protected
space not less than nine inches from the ground or floor ;
(/) shall cause all trimmings, refuse and rubbish to be
placed in properly covered receptacles kept for the purpose
apart from any meat intended for sale.
PART V.—SHOPS, STORES, Etc.
20.-—(1). The occupier of any room in which meat is sold or
exposed for sale or deposited for the purpose of sale or of preparation
for sale or with a view to future sale, and any person who
knowingly lets any room or suffers any room to be occupied for
such purpose shall cause the following provisions to be complied
with :—
(a) No urinal, water-closet, earth-closet, privy, ashpit or
other like sanitary convenience shall be within such room or
shall communicate directly therewith, or shall be otherwise so
placed that offensive odours therefrom can penetrate to such
room;
(b) No cistern for supplying water to such room shall be
in direct communication with or directly discharge into any
such sanitary convenience;
(c) No drain or pipe for carrying off faecal or sewage
matter shall have any inlet or opening within such room unless
it is efficiently trapped ;
(d) No such room shall be used as a sleeping place, and,
so far as may be reasonably necessary to prevent risk of the
infection or contamination of any such meat as aforesaid, no
sleeping place shall communicate directly with such room ;
(e) Except in the case of a room used as a cold store,
adequate means of ventilation shall be provided.