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81
Edmonton Urban District.
REPORT
of the
INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES
For the Year 1908.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Edmonton.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Edmonton Urban District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you the report of the work done
by myself and your Inspectors in the Department for the Year 1908. Very
little legislation of 1908 has any direct relation to Public Health Administration.
In view of the passing of the Public Health Act, 1907, we must,
no doubt, wait a little longer for the general measures of revision and consolidation
of the numerous Public Health Acts, but the need of such a measure
still exists and continues to grow.
REGULATION AS TO FOOD.
In pursuance of the Public Health (Regulation as to Food) Act, 1907,
the Local Government Board have made two sets of regulations, one called
the Public Health (First Series: Unsound Food) Regulations, 1908, and the
other the Public Health (Foreign Meat) Regulation, 1908. These regulations
come into operation on the 1st January, 1909. The regulations relating to
unsound food have been framed with the object of securing that articles of food
which are unsound, unwholesome, or unfit for human consumption, and which,
as part of the cargo of a ship are brought to a place in this country, either
as a place of destination, or as a place of deposit for transmission to a place
-of destination elsewhere in the United Kingdom, shall be dealt with at the
port of discharge. The regulation relating to Foreign Meat is divided into
classes.