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Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933.
The Health Committee has been empowered to act on behalf
of the Council in the execution of this Act, and the Medical Officer
of Health and Sanitary Inspectors are appointed Inspectors for the
purposes of the Act.
The Council as sanitary authority are required to keep a
register of sellers of poisons comprised in Part II of the Poisons
List (i.e., those poisons the sale of which is not restricted to
registered pharmacists).
There were registered by the Council at 1st January, 1938, 71
traders occupying 88 shops. Four of these did not renew their
licences, but three new applications were received in the year, so
the number of traders registered at 31st December was 70, occupying
87 premises.
Eight samples were taken but no infringement of the requirements
of the Rules was reported.
Amendments of the original rules were made by the Poisons
(Amendment) Rules, 1938, and the Poisons List (Amendment)
Order, 1938, made certain alterations in the Schedules to the Rules
which determine by which persons the various poisons may be sold.

Systematic inspection of these houses is carried out by the
Council's inspectors, and, generally speaking, they are found to
be in a sanitary condition, and conducted in accordance with the
requirements of the by-laws.
At the request of the London County Council an annual
inspection was carried out at midnight on the 17th February, when
the number of beds occupied was found to be, men 32, women 13.
Applications for the renewal for one year of the existing licences
were granted by the Committee in June.
There are no seamen's lodging houses in the Borough.