The health officer's pocket-book : a guide to sanitary practice and law for medical officers of health, sanitary inspectors, members of sanitary authorities, etc. / by Edward F. Willoughby.
- Willoughby, Edward F. (Edward Francis), 1839 or 1840-1906.
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The health officer's pocket-book : a guide to sanitary practice and law for medical officers of health, sanitary inspectors, members of sanitary authorities, etc. / by Edward F. Willoughby. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![a quarterly detailed report of the articles submitted to him under this Act, the results of the analyses, and the sums paid to him, and the authority shall annually transmit certified copies of these reports to the L.G.B. as the Board may direct. Sec. 20. If the analyst certify to a violation of the Act, the person causing the analysis to be made may proceed for the summary recovery of the penalty before any P.S.C. in the place where the article was sold. Sec. 21. The analyst's certificate shall be prima facia evidence for prosecution, but defendant may require the analyst to be called and examined, and may tender himself or his wife to give evidence in his own behalf. The portion of the article retained by prosecutor shall also be produced in court. Sec. 22. The J. before whom the complaint is made, or the C. before whom an appeal is heard, may at request of either party at their discretion cause one portion of the food or drug to be sent to the Comm. of Inland Rev., to be examined by analysts at Somerset House, whose certificate shall be returned to the J.s. the expenses being paid as they may by order direct by the complainant or the defendant. [This constitution of the chemists at Somerset House into a Court of Appeal is felt as a grievance by Public Analysts, since neither by their scientific status nor their special experience are they qualified to assume such a character. Their ordinary duties are almost confined to alcoholimetry for the purposes of the Excise, but among Public Analysts are some of the most eminent chemists of the day. No such jealousy is felt in regard to the distinguished men who act as chemical advisers to the Home Office.] Sec. 23. Any person convicted by any J.s may appeal to next C.G. or Q.S. held for the same place, on entering within three days, with two sufficient sureties, into his recognizance to abide by the decision of the court and to pay the costs. Sec. 24. A person desiring to set aside a conviction by the exemptions under §§ 5, 6, 8, must prove the same to the Court. Sec. 25. If the defendant can prove to the Court that he bought the article in the same state as he sold it, and with a written warranty which he had no reason to doubt, he shall be discharged, but shall be liable to pay the costs incurred by prosecutor, unless he had given him previous notice of his intended defence. Sec. 26. Penalties recovered by private prosecutors shall be appropriated as laid down by S.J. A., but those by officers of the authority appointing the analyst shall be paid by them to the authority and applied to the expenses of executing the Act. Sec. 27. The penalty for forging a certificate or warranty, or uttering the same knowing it to be forged, is imprisonment](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20404116_0357.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
