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Power to Medical Officer of Health and Inspector of Nuisances to
open boxes, &c., containing Provisions.
3. For the purpose of enabling the Medical Officer of
Health or Inspector of Nuisances to effectually inspect and
examine under the provisions of Section 116 of the Public
Health Act, 1875, any article sold or exposed for sale or
deposited in any place for the purpose of sale, or of
preparation within the district and intended for the food of
man, such Medical Officer of Health or Inspector of Nuisances
may, subject to the provisions of Section 308 of the Public
Health Act, 1875, open any box or other receptacle in which
any such article may be contained, and any person who
shall obstruct any such officer or inspector in the execution
of this Section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten
pounds.
ICE CREAM.
There are several manufacturers of this commodity in the
district. It is prepared here as elsewhere, without a proper regard
for the production of a clean and wholesome finished product.
Many diseases have been attributed to the eating of
contaminated ice cream, and when it is remembered that it
forms one of the luxuries of children, the necessity for regulating
the trade becomes obvious.
Legal Powers necessary. With a view to the efficient control
of this trade, the following clauses are suggested for the Council's
Bill to be promoted in 1912 :—
1. (1.) Any officer duly authorised by the Council in
that behalf, shall at all reasonable times have the same
power of entry and inspection into, and of the premises of
any manufacturer or vendor of, or merchant or dealer in
ice cream or other similar commodity, for the purpose of
inspecting such premises and the materials, or commodities,
or articles of food therein, as an officer of the Council would
have under Section 102 (Power of entry of Local Authority)
of the Public Health Act, 1875, in the cases therein mentioned.