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Pharmacy and Poisons Act. 1933. &
Pharmacy and Medicines Act. 1941.
113 premises are listed for the sale of poisons included
in Part II of the Poisons List. Applications received
during the year were as follows
For - Entry 8
Retention 105
251 visits were made to these premises, and 28 samples
of poisons were taken, all of which were satisfactory.
Rag and Bope Dealers.
Seven inspections were made of such premises during the
year.
Rag Flock & Other Filling Materials Act. 1951.
This Act,which came into operation on 1/11/51, repealed
the Rag Flock Acts, 1911 & 1928 and Section 136 of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1936, and is designed to secure
the use of clean filling materials in upholstered articles
and other articles which are stuffed or lined. All premises
on which filling materials, as prescribed, are used,must be
registered by the Local Authority and premises used for
manufacture or storage of rag flock must be licensed. It is
an offence to use filling materials on unregistered premises,
to have unclean filling materials on registered premises, to
sell unclean filling materials, to manufacture or store rag.
flock on unlicensed premises, to receive rag flock into
registered premises except from licensed premises and to
fail to keep records in the prescribed form.
The Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Regulations,
which also operated from 1/11/51, prescribes standards of
cleanliness for each type of filling material to which the
Act applies; the form in which records are to be kept, the
analysts for purposes of tests under the Act, and the fees
payable for analyses. Fifteen premises were registered
under the Act during the year and no premises were licensed.
Visits made to Rag Flock premises during the year numbered
58.