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Unsound Food (First Series) Regulations, 1908. Foreign
Meat Regulations, 1908. London Port Sanitary Authority
and Poplar Borough Council.
On 4th December the Local Government Board forwarded the
following letter with copies of their draft regulations to the Poplar
Borough Council:—
[copy.]
135,968 E. 1908.
Local Government Board,
Whitehall, S.W.
4th December, 1908.
Sir,—
I am directed by the Local Government Board to state that the
Board have had under consideration the question of the application
of the Public Health (Foreign Meat) Regulations, 1908, and the
Public Health (First Series: Unsound Food) Regulations, 1908, in
the case of foreign meat and food to be landed in the Metropolitan
Borough of Poplar, and have caused Orders (drafts of which are
enclosed) to be prepared under Articles XVI. and XII. of the
Regulations respectively, requiring joint action by the Council of the
Borough and the Port Sanitary Authority of the Port of London for
the purposes of the Regulations in the matter.
In the case of the Unsound Food Regulations, it is proposed
that the powers and duties under those Regulations in regard to food
landed in the Borough shall, except in the cases referred to in
Paragraph 2, be exercised by the Council and their Medical Officer
of Health. In cases where the Port Medical Officer of Health has
specified a. place in the Borough for the detention of food, he is to
notify the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough, who will
thereupon deal with the food.
Where food is consigned to a wharf in the Borough, has been
examined by the Port Medical Officer of Health and found to be in
good condition, he will, if the importer desires it, notify the Medical
Officer of Health of the Borough of the fact of the examination, and
no further examination will then be made by that Medical Officer of
Health unless he has reason to think that the food has subsequently
become unsound.