Arthur Hill Hassall, physician & sanitary reformer : a short history of his work in public hygiene, and of movement against the adulteration of food and drugs / [Edwy Godwin Clayton].
- Clayton, Edwy Godwin.
- Date:
- 1908
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Arthur Hill Hassall, physician & sanitary reformer : a short history of his work in public hygiene, and of movement against the adulteration of food and drugs / [Edwy Godwin Clayton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![labours which have enabled him to effect so much good, and which have earned for him so well deserved a reputation.’— The Lancet, 1867, i. 673. [Short editorial.] 9- ‘“The Adulteration of Food and Drugs” . . . the series of analyses with which Dr. Hassall’s name will always be associated. . . .’—The Lancet, i86g, i. g6. [Article, urging the necessity ‘ to amend the Act of i860 for Preventing the Adulteration of Articles of Food or Drink, and to extend the Act to the case of adulteration of drugs. The Act of i860 was merely permissive, and the fines imposed by it were small.’] 10. ‘ The Adulteration Question.' . . The discussion which has so recently taken place relative to it in the new House of Commons. We agree . . . that the subject is still one of great and even national importance. . . . While we appre- ciate the study which Mr. Pochin has evidently devoted to the subject, as well as the compliment paid to ourselves and Dr. Hassall, we demur altogether to his conclusions ... it is incontestable that adulteration even now widely prevails. ... Dr. Hassall, who was consulted in reference to . . . [Mr. Scholefield’s Adulteration Bill], tried hard to increase its stringency, but with very inadequate effect.’ The Lancet, 1869, i. 369. [Further Article, advocating an amendment of the Act of i860.] 11. ‘ A Bill that has been repeatedly pressed upon the atten- tion of the Legislature by a persevering member will in time almost certainly become law ; and we cannot look forward to the enactment of such a measure as that of Mr. Muntz without feelings of gratification at the part taken by this journal in calling public attention to the want. We stood alone when Dr. Hassall, as the The Lancet analyst, conducted many thousand examinations of suspected articles. On the faith of his work we published the names of the dealers in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28989995_0107.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
