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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![go some sort of legal provisions to prevent the adulteration of food and drink, . . . From the time that the Bill became an Act [1872] . . . the weakness of its most important working clauses has been day after day more and more apparent ... a very excellent letter on the subject from Dr. Hassall that appeared in The Times of the 8th inst.’ The Lancet, 1874, i. 842. [Editorial on the Adulteration Act (1872), and the parliamentary inquiry into its operation.] 18. ‘The Select Committee . . . having received some important and valuable evidence from Dr. Hassall, whose claims to be heard are undoubted, as he has devoted more than twenty years to analytical work. . . —The Lancet, 1874, i. 918. [Editorial on the Adulteration Act.] 19. ‘. That Committee was not appointed either at the in- stance or in the interests of the public, but ... it was due to the clamours of manufacturers and traders, who conceived that they were injuriously affected by the Adulteration Acts. ... Of the witnesses actually examined, many were volun- teers ; and of this number was Dr. Hassall himself. Although he has devoted a lifetime to the question of adulteration, and the position which this subject has obtained in the public estimation is mainly due to his labours, yet he . . . had to tender his own evidence. . . . This report is faulty, erroneous, and highly mischievous.’—The Lancet, 1874, ii. 132. [Article referring to the ‘ inglorious labours ’ of the Committee of the House of Commons on Adulteration (1874), and its ‘ very remarkable report.’] 20. ‘ At the time this journal took up the subject of adulteration, under the guidance of the late Mr. Wakley and Dr. Hassall, the public were both cheated and poisoned. ... As far as the chief witness—Dr. Hassall—is concerned, the Report scarcely embodies a single one of the recommendations made by him](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28989995_0110.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
