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SANITARY LEGISLATION, 1911.
The following sanitary measures have been passed by
Parliament during the past year.
THE RAG FLOCK ACT, 1911.
The object of this Act is to render it illegal (l) to sell or
have in possession for sale flock manufactured from rags,
or (2) to use for the purpose of making any article of
upholstery, cushions, or bedding, flock manufactured from
rags, or (3) to have in possession flock manufactured from
rags intended to be used for any such purpose, unless the
flock conforms to such standard of cleanliness as may be
prescribed by regulations to be made by the Board.
Penalties up to fifty pounds follow upon conviction for
any of the above offences.
It is made the duty of the Council, as the Sanitary
Authority for their district, to appoint an officer and give him
power to carry out any proceedings which the Council are
authorised to institute and carry on under the Act, and to
enter at all reasonable times any premises in which he has
reason to believe an offence under the Act is being committed,
and to examine and take samples for the purpose of analysis
of any flock found on the premises, the sample to be divided
into two parts to be marked and sealed, one part to be left
with such occupier.
Obstruction of the officer is punishable under the Act,
and the expenses of the Council are to be defrayed as part
of the general expenses incurred in execution of the Public
Health Acts.
This Act comes into force on July 1st, 1912.
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) IN HOSPITALS)
REGULATIONS, 1911.
These Regulations were issued by the Local Government
Board in March, and extended the system of partial notification
of Poor Law cases of pulmonary tuberculosis to cases
occurring amongst the in-patients or out-patients at Hospitals
or certain other similar Institutions for the treatment of the
sick.
The Regulations require that every case of pulmonary
tuberculosis should be visited, and inspection made of the