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(4) Arrangements for chemical and bacteriological work during the
year and their results.—Full particulars with regard to these arrangements
have been given under more appropriate headings. It may be noted at this
point, however, that under the Rag Flock Act, 1911, three samples were taken
and submitted to the public analyst who reported that two samples contained
0'7 and 0'8 parts chlorine per 100,000 respectively, and the third sample 60
parts of chlorine per 100,000, an excess of 30 parts above the standard laid
down in the Rag Flock Regulations, 1912. Legal proceedings were instituted,
when the defendant called the manufacturers of the Rag Flock who submitted
an analyst's certificate showing the duplicate sample to contain only 11.2 parts
chlorine per 100,000, and in view of the discrepancy between the two portions
analysed the magistrate dismissed the summons but declined to give the
defendant costs.