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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$certificate of the result of his analysis, specifying whether, in his opinion, such article is adulterated, and also whether, if it be an article of food or drink, it is so adulterated as to be injurious to the health of persons eat- ing or drinking the same, and such certificate, duly signed by such analyst, shall, in the absence of any evidence before the court to the contrary, be sufficient evidence of tJie matters therein certified, and the sum so directed to be paid for such certificate shall be deemed part of tlic cost^ lO. All articles of food, drink, or drugs to be analysed by the analysts Artioles^ fcr^^ appointed under this act shall be received by the inspectors appointed ^^^^^^^ by the local authorities, and from all such articles of food, drink, or inspectors, drugs samples shall be taken and sealed in the presence of the analysts by the inspectors, to be retained by them and produced in case the justices, sheriff substitute, magistrate, or divisional justice shall order other analyses to be made. II The expenseofexecutingthisactshallbeborne, inthecity of London Expenses in and the liberties thereof, out of the consolidated rates raised by the com- tHo missioners of sewers of the city of London and the liberties thereof, and in the rest of the metropolis out of any rates or funds applicable to the purposes of the act for the better local management of the metropolis, and in counties out of the county rate, or out of the grand jury cess in Ireland, and in boroughs out of the borough fund ; and in Scotland, out of the police money in counties and boroughs respectively. 12. Nothing in this act contained shall be held to affect the power of proceeding by indictment, or to take away any other remedy against any jmiict^ent. offender under this act. [See the Adulteration Act of i860, page 553, e( seq-l AN ACT TO REGULATE THE SALE OF POISONS IN IRELAND. 33 & 34 Vict., Cap. 26. \i/[ik July, 1870.] 1 The several articles mentioned in the schedule A to this act Articles named annexed shall be deemed to be poisons within the meaning of this 'j'^^^^^^^g^® ^'° act ; and the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland may poisonous within from time to time, by resolution, declare that any article other than tiie meaning of those mentioned in the said schedule, and in such resolution named, tins Act. ought to be deemed a poison within the meaning of this act; and there- upon the said college shall submit the said resolution for the approval of her Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, and if such approval shall be given, then such resolution and approval shall be advertised in the Dublin Gazette; and on the expiration of one month irom such adver- tisement the article named in such resolution shall be deemed to be a poison within the meaning of this act. 2 It shall be unlawful to sell any poison, either by wholesale or by ReKulationstobo retail, unless the box, bottle, vessel, wrapper, or cover in which such °X^ofpoisons'$