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The Journal is welcomed by the School Teachers as a
great help in the teaching of Hygiene.
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.
Inspections numbering 107 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.
During the year 88 names have been entered on the list,
and certificates issued to all the applicants.
The following are some of the requirements applying to
the sale of all Part II poisons:—
1. Sales must be effected on the premises entered in
the Council's List;
2. No sales can be made from vans, travelling shops,
barrows or stalls;
3. Hawking carbolic disinfectants is now illegal;
4. Poisons must be sold in closed containers.
The listed premises are kept under supervision by the
Council's Sanitary Inspectors.