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food to a second person, whether that second person has purchased
it or not, should be made liable.
"Again, with respect to the letter from Stepney stating that
'proceedings cannot be successfully taken if the meat be seized
in transit, as it is not then exposed or deposited for sale as
human food, and therefore the original vendor cannot be proceeded
against,' the Medical Officer of Health thinks proceedings
can be taken, as it was held that diseased meat, placed
upon a cart, when passing through the streets of the City of
Dublin from the slaughter-house to a place for the manufacture
of preserved meats, was properly seized. (Daly v. Webb.)
"With respect to the remarks concerning cats'-meat in the
correspondence of the Town Clerk of Stepney, the Medical
Officer thinks that some of the suggestions in his report to the
Public Health and Housing Committee on 'Horse-flesh,' dated
the 6th May, 1904, could be made to apply to Cats'-meat, viz.: —
Registration of Wholesale Dealers; Inspection of Registers by
officers of Local Authorities; and the labelling of all consignments.
"PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) ACT, 1891.
''Section 47.—(1) Any Medical Officer of Health or Sanitary
Inspector may at all reasonable times enter any premises and
inspect and examine: —
"(a) Any animal intended for the food of man which
is exposed for sale, or deposited in any place for the
purpose of sale, or of preparation for sale, and
"(b) Any article, whether solid or liquid, intended for
the food of man, and sold or exposed for sale or deposited