Foods: their composition and analysis : A manual for the use of analytical chemists and others. With an introductory essay on the history of adulteration / By Alexander Wynter Blyth. With numerous tables and illustrations.

  • Alexander Wynter Blyth
Date:
1882
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Credit: Foods: their composition and analysis : A manual for the use of analytical chemists and others. With an introductory essay on the history of adulteration / By Alexander Wynter Blyth. With numerous tables and illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    in all other parts of the metropolis, the vestries and district boards analysts acting in execution of the Act for the better local management of the ^g^'t^ ^6°^ metropolis, the court of quarter sessions of every county, and the appointed in town council of every burgh having a separate court of quarter i^igiand. sessions, or having under any general or local Act of Parliament or otherwise a separate police establishment, may, as soon as convenient after the passing of this Act, where no appointment has been hitherto made, and in all cases as and when vacancies in the office occur, or when required so to do by the Local Government Board, shall for their respective city, districts, cotmties, or boroughs, appoint one or more persons possessing competent knowledge, skill, and experience, as analysts of all articles of food and drugs sold within the said city, metropolitan districts, counties, or boroughs, and shaU pay to such analysts such remtmeration as shall be mutually agreed upon, and may remove him or them as they shall deem proper; lout such appointments and removals shall at all times be subject to the approval of the Local Government Board, who may require satis- factory proof of competency to be supplied to them, and may give their approval absolutely or with modifications as to the period of the appointment and removal, or otherwise; Provided, that no person shall hereafter be appointed an analyst for any place under this section who shall be engaged directly or indirectly in any trade or business connected with the sale of food or drugs in such place. In Scotland the like powers shall be conferred and the like duties Appoint- shall be imposed upon the commissioners of supply at their ordinary ments in. meetings for counties, and the commissioners or boards of poUce, or Scotland, where there are no such commissioners or boards, upon the town councils for burghs within their several jurisdictions; provided that one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State in Scotland shall be substituted for the Local Government Board of England. In Ireland the like powers and duties shall be conferred and In Ireland, imposed respectively upon the grand jury of every county and town council of every borough ; provided that the Local Government Board of Ireland shall be substituted for the Local Government Board of England. 11. The town council of any borough may agree that the analyst Town appointed by any neighbouring borough or for the county in which the Councils l iorough is situated, shall act for their borough during such time as the ™?y '^S'''?® said council shall think proper, and shall make due provision for the oYnoich payment of his remuneration, and if such analyst shall consent, he boming .shall d>n-ing such time be the analyst for such borough for the pur- county or poses of the Act. borough. 12. Any purchaser of any article of food or of a drug in .my place Any being a district, county, city, or borough where there is any analyst purchaser of appointed under this or any Act hereby repealed shall be entitled, on 'oo''** payment to such analyst of a sum not exceeding ten shillings and '.InfiVf „„ sixpence, or if there I)e no such analyst then acting for such place, to Vriymonio!a, the .analyst of another place, of such sum .as may be agreed upon between foo, to havo such ])erson .and the analyst, to havo such article analysed liy such an analysis analyst, and to receive from him a certificate t)f the result of his ■'!.„ , .analysis. cortinoato. 1:5. Any medical officer of health, inspector of nuisances, or inspoc- Medical tor of weights and measures, or any insiiector of a m.arket, or any offlcers of l)olice constable under the direction and at the cost of the h)cal .'^alth, authority ai)pointing such officer, insi)ector, or constable, or charged n^l'''}'?', with the execution of this Act, may procure any sample of food or „thor° drugs, and if he suspect the same to have been sold to him contrary ollloials may to any provision of this Act, sh.all submit the same to be .an.alysed by promiro the aii.alyst of the district or place for which he acts, or if there be 'P'o for no such analyst then .acting for Hiich placu; to the .analyst of another '^''y^''- place, and such analyst shall, upon receiving payment as is provided in 37
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