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(4) Information was received from another district that a person
had been admitted to hospital suspected to be suffering from
food poisoning following a meal partaken at a restaurant
situated in Westminster. Investigations were carried out
but the patient's complaint was later diagnosed as appendicitis.
(5) Two cases of food poisoning came to notice in which both patients
had eaten corned beef purchased from a shop in the City.
The Sanitary Inspector called at the shop to investigate the
matter, but was informed that the remainder of the beef
had been returned to the head office, situated in another
district, following the receipt of a complaint by one of the
persons affected. The matter was referred to the Medical
Officer of Health for the district concerned. A report was
subsequently received to the effect that a sample of the meat
had been subjected to chemical and bacteriological tests with
negative results.
Pharmacy & Poisons Act, 1933.
This Act placed upon Local Authorities the duty of enforcing Part II
of the Act and the Rules made thereunder so far as they relate to poisons
in Part II of the Poisons List.
The Poisons List and the Poisons Rules referred to were made by the
Secretary of State on the 31st December, 1935, and came into force on
the 1st May, 1936.
Part II of the Act provides, inter alia, that it shall not be lawful for
a person not being registered pharmacist, to sell any poison included
in Part II of the Poisons List unless his name is entered in a list to be
kept by the Local Authority and the sale is effected on premises specified
in that list as being premises on which he is entitled, subject to the
provisions of the Act, to sell such poisons. (This provision applies
only to sales by retail.)
Power is given to the Local Authority to refuse to enter the name of
any person or to remove his name from the list if in their opinion he is
not fit to be entered on the list. Any person aggrieved by the action of
the Local Authority has a right of appeal to Quarter Sessions. The
Local Authority's list must be open at all reasonable times to the inspection
of any person. It is the duty of the Local Authority, by means of inspection
and otherwise, including the purchase of samples for analysis, to take
all reasonable steps to secure compliance by persons, not being registered
pharmacists, with the provisions of Part II of the Act.