The Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict., cap. 55). The Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict., cap. 75). The Canal Boats Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict., cap. 60) : and other statutes relating to the public health the text of the Queen's printers' editions preceded by a complete index to the same / by Frederic Stratton.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
1890
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Credit: The Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict., cap. 55). The Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict., cap. 75). The Canal Boats Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict., cap. 60) : and other statutes relating to the public health the text of the Queen's printers' editions preceded by a complete index to the same / by Frederic Stratton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SALE OF HORSEFLESH, &c., REGULATION ACT, 1889. 52 & 53 Vict., Chapter ii. An Act to regulate the Sale of Horseflesh for Human Food. [24th June, 1889.] Whereas it is desirable to make regulations with respect to the sale of horseflesh for human food : 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 by the authority of the same, as follows: Signs on Horseflesh Shops. 1. No person shall sell, offer, expose, or keep for sale any horse- flesh for human food, elsewhere than in a shop, stall, or place over or upon which there shall be at all times painted, posted, or placed in legible characters of not less than four inches in length, and in a conspicuous position, and so as to be visible throughout the whole time, whether by night or day, during which such horseflesh is being offered or exposed for sale, words indicating that horseflesh is sold there. Horseflesh not to he Sold as other Meat. 2. No person shall supply horseflesh for human food to any purchaser who has asked to be supplied with some meat other than horseflesh, or with some compound article of food which is not ordinarily made of horseflesh. Power of Medical Officer of Health to inspect Meat^ 6^<r. 3. Any medical officer of health or inspector of nuisances or other officer of a local authority acting on the instructions of such authority or appointed by such authority for the purposes of this Act may at all reasonable times inspect and examine any meat which he has reason to believe to be horseflesh, exposed for sale or deposited for the purpose of sale, or of preparation for sale, and intended for human food, in any place other than such shop, stall, or place as aforesaid, and if such meat appears to him to be horseflesh he may seize and carry away or cause to be seized and carried away the same, in order to have the same dealt with by a justice as hereinafter provided.