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Credit: The Australasian medical directory and handbook / edited by Ludwig Bruck. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![Exemptionfrom Pnialtien.—No person shall bo liable to be convicted in respect of the sale of any article of food, or of any drug, if be shows to the satisfaction of the court that be did not know of the article of food or drug sold by him being so adulterated. Saif of Articlfn of Food arid of Brwjx.—No pei-son shall sell any article of food or any drug,'wbicb is not of the nature, substance, and quality of the article demanded by such purchaser, under a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. Provided that an oifence shall not he deemed to be committed in the following cases :—1. Where any matter or ingredient not injurious to health has been added because the same is required for the production or preparation thereof as an article of commerce. 2. Where the drug or food is a proprietary medicine, or is the subject of a patent in force. 3. Where the food or drag is compounded. 4. Where the food or drug is unavoidably mixed with some extraneous matter in the process of collection or preparation. 5. Where at the time of delivering such article or drug he suj)plies to the person receiving the same a notice, by a label distinctly and legibly written or printed on, to the effect that the same is mixed. Duties op Analysts. Appointment of Analysts.—Government analysts, for the purposes of this Act, are appointed by the Governor in Council, hut any local authority may, and when required to do so by the Minister shall, appoint for their municipality one or more competent pereons as public analysts. Provided that no person who is engaged directly or indirectly in a trade or business connected with the sale of food or drugs in any municipality shall be appointed or perform the duties of a public analyst. Articles of Food Analysed hy Puhlic Analyst.—Every Inspector under the pro- visions of this Act, who may have procured samples of food or drugs, or the purchaser of an article of food or of a drug shall, on payment of a sum not exceeding twenty shillings, be entitled to have such article analysed with all convenient speed by any Public or Government Analyst, and to receive from him a certificate of the result thereof. ll/‘j)orts of Analy.sts.—Eveiy public analyst shall report quarterly to the local authority appointing him, the number of articles analysed by him under this Act during the forcgoing quarter, and .shall specify the result of each analysis, and the sum paid to him in respect thereof, and such report shall be presented at the next meeting of the local authority appointing such analyst, and every such local authority shall annually tran.smit to the Minister a certified copy of each such quarterly report. Every Government Analyst shall make a similar report once in each year to the Minister. Special Provisions as to Milli.—Any Inspector of Nuisances, or other officer charged with the execution of this Act, may procure any sample of milk in the course of delivery to the purchaser, and such officer, if he suspects the same to have been sold contrary to any of the provisions of this Act, shall submit the same to be analysed, and proceedings shall be taken, and penalties, on conviction, be enforced. REGISTRATION OP DEATHS. (^Amended JUpnlatimis Gazetted on Decemher 18, 1886.) Medical Certificates.—In cases where a legally qualified Medical Practitioner atteniled the deceased previous to death, a medical certificate of the cause of death, in the prescribctl foi-rn, must be obtained and lodged with the certificate of death. (In case of a death resulting from fractures, contusions, wounds of any kind, poison, or drowming, the Registrar-General particularly recpicsts medical men to state specifi- cally the Nature of the Injury, and whether the cause of death was accidental, suicidal, or homicidal.') When a medical certificate of the cause of death cannot be obtained owing to the non-attendance'of a legally qualified Practitioner on the deceased previous to death, the District Registrar must make all reasonable inquiries, through the police or other- wise, as to the cause of death, and the reasons why the deceased was not attended by a legally qualified Medical Practitioner. If it a|)pcars to the District Registrar that the fricTuls, relatives, or ])crsons in charge of the deceased wilfully and unju.stifiably neglected to obtain the, assistance of a legally qualified Medical Practitioner to attend on decea.scd previous to death, or that](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28034272_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
