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ICE CREAM SELLERS.
There are a number of small shops in the District
where ice creams are made in the summer and consumed
on the premises. Handbills were distributed, to inform
the sellers as to the provisions of the Act which came
into operation on November 6th. No barrow men reside
in the District, but several come from neighbouring
parishes and sell the ice-creams in the streets. According
to the Act, the name and address of the salesman
must be placed on the the barrow to enable the Inspector
to communicate with the Medical Officer of Health of the
vendor's district, who will ascertain whether the provisions
of the Act are carried out. The following are the
principal clauses of the Act:—
"Any person being a manufacturer of or merchant
or dealer in Ice Cream or other similar commodity who
within the County
(a) Causes or permits Ice Cream or any similar commodity
or any materials used in the manufacture
thereof to be manufactured sold or stored in any
sleeping room or in any room cellar or place which
is in a condition likely to render such commodity
injurious to health or in which there is an inlet or
opening to a drain or
(b) In the manufacture sale or storage of any such
commodity does any act or thing likely to expose
such commodity to infection or contamination or
omits to take any proper precaution for the due
protection of such commodity from infection or
contamination; or
(c) Omits on the outbreak of any infectious disease
amongst the persons employed in his business to
give notice thereof forthwith to the Medical Officer
of the District in which such business is carried on