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.
358/412 page 332
![< 2\ years with hard labour. For wilfully misapplying a certificate or warranty given for some other article or for giving a false warranty in writing, or a label falsely describing the article sold, a fine < £20. Sec. 28. Nothing in this Act shall interfere with proceedings by indictment, or with contracts, provided that if the person convicted can prove that the article was sold to him as of the nature, &c. demanded by the purchaser, that he had no reason to doubt the description, and that he sold it as he received it, he may recover from the person supplying him, in addition to any other damages, the amount of the penalty and c®sts incurred by him in both actions ; the defendant in the latter action being, however, at liberty to prove that the conviction was wrongful, or the amount of costs awarded or claimed excessive. Sec. 30. All tea imported shall be examined by persons appointed by the Customs and approved by the Treasury, and if necessary analyzed by analysts so appointed. If found to be mixed with exhausted leaves or other substances, it shall be delivered only with the sanction of and under conditions imposed by the Comm. of Customs, but if, in the opinion of the analyst, unfit for human food, it shall be forfeited and destroyed, or otherwise disposed of as they may direct. Sale of Foods and Drugs Act, 1879. A short amending Act (1879) providing § 6, that the minimum strength of brandy, whiskey, and rum, be 25° under proof, and of gin 35°. Also § 3, that a sample of milk may be taken at the place of delivery, i. e. in the street as well as in the shop. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT, 1876. Definitions.— Cattle means bulls, oxen, cows, heifers, and calves. Animals include cattle, sheep, goats, and swine. Disease means cattle-plague, pleuro-pneumonia, foot and mouth disease, sheep-pox [and swine fever ?]. Veterinary Inspector is one who is M.R.C.V.S. Foreign countries are all beyond Great Britain and Ireland, and foreign cattle those brought from such. County includes any division of a county having a separate commission of the peace, also the Isle of Ely, and Soke of Peterborough, but no liberty, nor city or borough counties. The Corporation of the City of London is, in respect of pro- visions as to foreign cattle, the L.A. for the whole metropolitan district [= County of London].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20404116_0358.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
