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Sale of Food and
Drugs Bill.
This Bill has been introduced into Parliament
by Mr. Kearley, who was a member
of Sir Walter Foster's Committee on Food Products,
which inquired into the subject two years ago. The
Bill embodies this Board's proposal, adopted at the
Conference of Local Authorities on the subject, to the
effect that a person summoned for adulterating an
article who relies upon a written warranty shall summon
before the Court the person upon whose warranty
he relies, and that the person so giving the warranty
may be proceeded against. The Board have not taken
any action in the matter at present, as it is understood
that the question will be dealt with by the Government.
The Board took no action with regard to the
other Bills before mentioned.
Water Companies'
Regulations.
At the request of the London County
Council an Inquiry was held by the Local
ijovernment Board, at which this Board gave evidence,
as to the desirability of altering the Water Companies'
Regulations, and especially the regulation which limits
the capacity of the flushing cistern to two gallons. The
decision of the Local Government Board was to the
following effect, viz. :—
i—That the Local Government Board were not prepared to alter
the existing regulations so as to substitute three for two gallons as the
maximum amount of water to be used as a flush for a water-closet.
2.—That they saw no objection to the regulations being amended
so as to include in the definition of water-closet any sink used for
receiving any solid or liquid excremental filth.
3.—That they were advised that the suggested regulation which
would prevent cisterns being brought into use for supplying water for
domestic purposes or for food for beasts so long as they directly supplied
any water-closet or sink used for receiving any solid or liquid filth was
designed not for the purpose of preventing the pollution of water, but
For the purpose of preventing the use of water that was liable to
pollution, and did not therefore come within the scope of the regulations
required to be made under sec. 17 of the Metropolis Water Act, and