A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron.

Date:: 1874

Credit: A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$keep such officer in custody longer than twenty-four hours without brino-ino-him hefore some justice or the sheriff, according as he may be simimoned before the one or the other ; and the justice or sheriff before whom such officer may be brought may cither discharge such officer ifhe think there is no sufficient ground for Ins detention, or order such officer to be detained in custody so as to be brought before two iusticesata time and place to be named in such order, unless such officer give bail to the satisf\iction of such justice for his appea,r-. ance before such justices to answer the complaint of the commis- 7i. No such proceeding against or dealing with any such officer as p^^^^^^.^„^ aforesaid shall deprive the commissioners ot any reraeay wuicn mey jjg^jnst otBcers might otherwise have against any surety of such officer. not to discliargd ° ° ' sureties. THE ADULTERATION OF ARTICLES OF FOOD OR DRINK ACT, i860. An Act for preventmg the Adulterations of Articles of Food or Drink. I6i/i August, i860.] 23 & 24 Victoria, Cap. 84. Whereas the practice of adulterating articles of food and drink for sale, in fraud of her Majesty's subjects, and to the great hurt of their health, requires to be repressed by more effectual laws than those which are now in force for that purpose : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parhament assembled, and bv the authority of the same, as follows :— I Everv nerson who shall sell any article of food or drmk with which, Penalty on to the knowledge of such person, any ingredient materi^al injur^^^^^^^^^ Sclelo^ftol the health of persons eating or drinking such article has been niixea. j. ^^.j^^j^ ^^^^^.^g and everv person who shall sell as pure or unadulterated any article ot the same to be food or drink which is adulterated or not pure, shalHor every such injurious to offence on a summary conviction of the same before two justices of the neaun. peace at Petty Sessions in England, in Scotland before two justices of the peace in Justice of the Teace Court, or before the sheriff substi- tute of the county, or before justices at Petty Sessions or a divisional ■ justice in Ireland, forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding five pounds,5 together wUh such costs attending such conviction as to the said jus- As to subsequent tices shall seem reasonable ; and if any person so convicted shall alter- offences, wards commit the like offence, it shall be lawful for such justices to cause such offender's name, place of abode, and offence to be published, at the expense of such offender, in such newspaper or in such other manner as to such justices shall seem desirable. a For definition of adulteration and mothocl of proceduro in relation to the aiiti-adulteratiou acts, sec chapter on adulteration, page 300. b Penalties increased by later Act, see page 457.$