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St George (Westminster) 1877

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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whether the seller of an article has a Warranty to produce
or not, and so, if this decision be followed, cases, even where
adulteration is proved, will be lost, and those who try to
carry out the Act will have to pay the costs, instead of
recovering the penalties.".
"If the Act is rightly interpreted by the Scotch Court of
Appeal, the only thing to do is to use every effort to get it
amended, or adulteration will soon become as rampant as
it was before this Act and its predecessor were passed."
W. H. CORFIELD,
Public Analyst.