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Hackney 1924

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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101
FOOD PREMISES.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Part II of the London
County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908, provides as follows :—
From and after the passing of this Act the following provisions
shall apply to any room shop or other part of a building
within the county in which ANY ARTICLE whether SOLID OR
LIQUID intended or adapted for the food of man is sold or exposed
for sale or deposited for the purpose of sale or of preparation
for sale or with a view to further sale :
(a) No urinal water-closet earth-closet privy ashpit or
other like sanitary convenience shall be within such room
shop or other part of a building or shall communicate therewith
except through the open air or through an intervening
ventilated space;
(b) No cistern for supplying water to such room shop or
other part of a building shall be in direct communication with
and 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 shop
or other part of a building;
(d) No such room shop or other part of a building 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 article as aforesaid no sleeping place shall adjoin
such room shop or other part of a building and communicate
therewith except through the open air or through an intervening
ventilated space;
(e) Refuse or filth whether solid or liquid shall not be
deposited or allowed to accumulate in any such room shop
or other part of a building except so far as may be reasonably
necessary for the proper carrying on of trade or business ;