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to exercise the powers conferred on him by the Section, and on application being
submitted to a Petty Sessional Court the magistrate made an Order for the
removal of the man to institution and he was thereupon admitted to a L.C.C.
General Hospital.
Rent and Mortgage Interest Restriction Acts, 1920 to 1933.
No application was received during the year for a certificate under the above
Acts.
New Legislation.
Public Health (London) Act, 1936.
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This Act (with 309 sections and seven schedules) received the Royal Assent
on the 31st July, 1936, and came into operation on the 1st October of the same
year.
The Act consolidates the Public Health law in the Metropolis, formerly contained
in about 83 different Acts of Parliament. This consolidating Act, by which
the health provisions of so many Acts of Parliament are brought into one statute,
will be of great value to local authorities and will materially facilitate the
administration of health law in London.
Housing Act, 1936.
This also is a consolidating Act. It received the Royal Assent on the 31st
July, 1936, and came into operation on the 1st day of January, 1937. The measure
consolidates the Housing Acts, 1925 to 1935, and certain other enactments relating
to housing. To have the Housing law brought together into one Act will be of
great advantage to all housing authorities and will simplify administration.
The Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933.
An important development of work of a Public Health Department was the
coming into full effect on the 1st May, 1936, of the above Act together with the
rules made under it. The new law controls the sale of poisons enumerated in a
" Poisons List." This list is divided into two parts. The poisons scheduled in
Part I may be sold only by " authorsed sellers " of poisons, usually persons
keeping a pharmacy or chemist's shop; those in Part II of the list may be sold by
any trader who is registered with the local authority for the purpose. The
Registering Authorities are, in London (i) the Common Council of the City of
London, and (ii) the Councils of the Metropolitan Boroughs. The Registering
Authority may refuse to enter in, or may remove from the register, the name of
any person who fails to pay the prescribed fee or who, in the opinion of the
Authority is, for any sufficient reason relating either to him personally or to his
premises, not fit to be on the register. It is the duty of the Registering Authority
by means of inspection and otherwise to secure compliance by registered sellers of
Part II poisons, and other persons not being authorised sellers of poisons, with the