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Booklet—" Family Meals and Catering." —This booklet
is issued by the British Medical Association and contains
information as to the vitamins in various dishes and on
the preparation and cooking of meals containing full
nourishing values.
Copies of the booklet were distributed to all mothers
attending the Infant Welfare Centres and Ante-natal Clinics.
PHARMACY AND POISONS ACT, 1933.
The provisions of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1938,
relating to the sale of certain poisons came into operation
on 1st May, 1936.
In pursuance of this Act, it is the duty of the local
authority by means of inspection and otherwise to secure
compliance by listed sellers of poisons included in Part II
of the Act, and other persons not being authorised sellers
of poisons.
Inspectors appointed under the Act have power at all
reasonable times to enter any listed premises, and any
premises upon which he has cause to suspect a breach of
the law. They may also take samples for analysis.
Preliminary inspections numbering 218 were made to
ensure that shopkeepers other than chemists would not
be selling Part II poisons without a certificate that their
names are entered in the list required to be kept by the
Council.
In respect of the entry of his name on the list, a fee of
7s. 6d. must be paid to the local authority by every person
requiring to sell the listed poisons.