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now examined by an Analyst appointed by the Commissioners
for Customs under Section 30 of the Sale of Food and Drugs
Act, 1875.
7. That a minimum penalty of 40s. be imposed for all
offences under the Act, and that the defendant shall be liable
to a double penalty, with or without imprisonment, in cases
of second or subsequent offences.
8. That all itinerant vendors of Food or Drugs shall only
sell from vehicles or vessels or other receptacles having printed
thereon the name and address of the person, who shall be
responsible as master for such sale; and all itinerant purveyors
of milk, whether employers or employed, shall be
registered with the County Council of the district, and it
shall be an offence, under the Act for the vendor of any
article to give a false name and address of himself, or his
employer, to an Officer under the Act.
9. That a copy of the resolutions passed by this Conference
be forwarded to the Select Committee appointed by the
House of Commons to enquire into the working of the Acts,
with the request that evidence may be called before the Committee
in support of the views urged therein.
A select Committee of the House of Commons was
appointed last year to enquire into the law for the
suppression of adulteration and is now taking evidence.
THE STAFF OF THE SANITARY DEPARTMENT.
The attention of the Vestry was drawn, in the report for
1893, to the urgent necessity for an increase in the Sanitary
Staff,' but as during the year the recommendation that
additional Sanitary Inspectors should be appointed was not
acted on, it is necessary to again bring the facts before the
Vestry, who must remember that no Sanitary Inspector has
been appointed since January, 1891, and since then the
Public Health Act, 1891, the Factory and Workshop Act,