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no part of my duty as Public Analyst for the
City of London, and would, if carried to any
practical issue, involve the necessity for special
arrangements and the appointment of a number
of competent analysts, with a corresponding
expenditure.
The question is a very wide one and can
only be adequately dealt with by a permanent
chemical staff, a considerable addition to the
number of inspectors, and the willing co-operation
of the different trades involved. Nor with
these adjuncts should we have any legal right
to collect samples outside your jurisdiction, and
even if we had this power the law would not
permit you to prosecute, it having been ruled in
the High Court of Justice that the article seized
must be dealt with by the Local Sanitary
Authority in which it was taken by the
Inspector.
All these considerations point to the work
being done by a department of the Government,
who possess already a number of chemical
experts both at Somerset House and the
Custom House.