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This appears to be partially provided for by the 4th Section of the
proposed measure ; but we do not consider that the duties to be
undertaken by the Inspectors under the Sale of Food and Drugs
Act with regard to these manufactories, are sufficiently defined in
the section referred to. We consider further that under the 10th
Section, the Inspectors under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act
should have been included.
"We are disposed to regard the proposed Bill as a step in
the right direction, although we are of opinion that it is only by
a much larger extension and application of the principles of the
Sale of Food and Drugs Act that the fraud in question and other
similar frauds can be adequately dealt with."
I also prepared a memorandum upon two other Bills in
Parliament, as follows :—
"Sanitary Registration of Buildings.—This Bill has
been materially modified since its introduction last Session. The
central feature of the present measure appears to be deserving
of approval, providing as it does for the registration of public and
quasi-public buildings, in order to secure that such buildings shall
be put and kept in a proper sanitary condition. The buildings
specified are school, college, hospital, asylum, hotel, lodginghouse
; and Clause 11 provides that such buildings shall not be
used permanently or temporarily unless and until a " Sanitary
Certificate " has been deposited with the " Sanitary Registration
Authority," and a " Sanitary Registration Certificate " has been
issued in accordance with the provisions of the " Act." The
Local Authorities charged with the administration of the Public
Health Acts are to be the Sanitary Registration Authorities in
their respective areas. The Sanitary Certificate is to be given
by persons duly licensed in sanitary practice by the Local Government
Board. This provision (clause 7) appears to me wholly
objectionable. I am of opinion that if such a measure should
ever become law, the proper persons to be authorised to issue
sanitary certificates are the duly qualified officers of the respective
Sanitary Authorities."