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assistants in each room of retail shops. It is to be enforced by the
London County Council.
The Board of Education Act, 1899, provides for the inspection
of Secondary Schools by Officers of that Board to ascertain the
provisions made for the health of the scholars.
The Small Dwelling Acquisition Act, 1899, empowers Local
Authorities to advance money for enabling persons to acquire the
ownership of small houses in which they reside.
The Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, considerably amends
the previous Acts relating thereto.
Importers are liable to heavy penalties unless margarine or margarine-cheese,
adulterated or impoverished butter, milk or cream, or
condensed, separated, or skimmed milk, is imported in packages, tins,
or other receptacles conspicuously marked, and indicating the nature
of the contents.
Power is given to the Local Government Board or the Board of
Agriculture to sample articles of food.
Power is given to the Board of Agriculture to make regulations
for determining the standards to be taken in the analysis of milk,
cream, butter, or cheese.
All packages of “ Margarine ” or “ Margarine Cheese ” must be
marked as such in 3/4-inch letters on the top, bottom, and sides of such
package, not on a label attached thereto. When exposed for sale, it
must be marked in 1 1/2-inch block letters, and when sold must be
delivered in a wrapper marked in 1 1/2-inch block letters “Margarine”
or “Margarine Cheese,” as the case may be, and no other printed
matter must appear on the wrapper. All manufacturers of and wholesale
dealers in Margarine must register the premises at which they
carry on their business with the Local Authority, and keep a register
of all Margarine and Margarine Cheese imported and sold by them.
No one shall make, sell, or expose for sale any Margarine the fat
of which contains more than 10 per cent. of butter-fat.