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
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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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    AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW FOE THE PREVENTION OF ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND DRINK AND OF DRUGS. 35 & 36 Vict., Cap. 74. [lot/t August^ 1872]. 1. Every person who shall wilfully admix, and every person who shall ^^^fngfjurious order any other person or persons to admix with any article of lood or jngreaients with drink any injurious or poisonous ingredient or material to adulterate the food, and same for sale, and every person who shall wilfully admix, and every adulteration of, person who shall order any other person or persons to admix, any ingre- dient or material with any drug to adulterate the same for sale, shall for the first offence forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds, together with the costs attending such conviction ; and for the second offence shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be imprisoned for a period not exceeding six calendar months, with hard labour. 2. Every person who shall sell any article of food or drink with which f|Xrattng to the knowledge of such person any ingredient or material injurious to f^^i^ (jrink, and the health of persons eating or drinking such article has been mixed, drugs. and every person who shall sell as unadulterated any article of food or drink, or anv drug which is adulterated, shall for every such offence, on a summary conviction of the same before two justices of the peace at petty sessions iu England, or before two justices of the peace in the justices of the peace court, or before the sheriff substitute of the county, or before any magistrate acting under any general or local Police Act in Scotland, or before justices at petty sessions or a divisional justice in Ireland, forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, together with such costs attending such conviction as to the said justices, sheriff substitute, magistrate, or divisional justice shall seem reasonable; and if any person so convicted shall afterwards commit the like offence, such justices, sheriff substitute, magistrate, or divisional justice shall 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 the said justices shall seem desirable. of mixed 3. Any person who shall sell any article of food or drink or any drug, ^a^^^ot mixea knowing the same to have been mixed with any other substance with intent fraudulently to increase its weight or bulk, and who shall not declare such admixture to any purchaser thereof before delivering the same and no other, shall be deemed to have sold an adulterated article of food or drink or drug, as the case may be, under this act. 4. The Pharmacy Act, 1868, and the act twenty-third and twenty- Incorporation of fourth Victoria, chapter eighty-four, for preventing the adulteration of Poisons ac 0. articles of food and drink, shall be deemed to be incorporated in this act: provided always that in the application of this act to Ireland the act passed in the session c f Parliament held in the thirty-third and thirty- four years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter twenty-six, inti- tuled An act to regulate the sale of poisons in Ireland, shall be deemed to be incorporated in this act instead of the Pharmacy Act, 1868. , , , . 5. In the city of London and the liberties thereof the commissioners analysts of sewers of the city of London and the liberties thereof, and in all other parts of the metropolis the vestries and district boards acting in execution of the act for the better local management of the metropolis ; in Eng- land, the court of quarter sessions of every cCJunty, and the town council of every borough having a separate court of quarter sessions, or having under any general or local act of parliament or otherwise a separate