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at a temperature not exceeding 25 degrees Centigrade, from not
less than 40 grammes of a well mixed sample of Flock does
not exceed 30 parts of chlorine in 100,000 parts of the Flock."
3. Regulations under the Public Health (Regulations as to
Food) Act, 1907.—" These regulations are designed to secure that
no preservative shall be added to milk, or to cream containing less
than 35 per cent, by weight of milk fat, at any stage from the place
of production to that of delivery to the purchaser. In the case of
cream containing over 35 per cent, of milk fat, the addition of
boric acid, borax or a mixture of these preservative substances
or of hydrogen peroxide is not prohibited by the regulations, but
is subject to a system of declaration which is required to be followed
by all persons dealing with such cream for the purpose of sale for
human consumption." Further, article IV. (a) prohibits the
addition of any thickening substance to cream or preserved cream.
Circular letters and Memoranda of the Local Government
Board.
1. Circular letter on Parliamentary grant for sanatorium
purposes.
2. Circular letter.—Treatment of tuberculosis, provisional
and permanent arrangements.
3. Memorandum.—Acute Polio myelitis.
4. Memorandum.—Investigations of outbreaks of illness suspected
to be due to food poisoning.
Regulations by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts : Sale of Milk Regulations, 1912.—
These regulations amend the Sale of Milk Regulations, 1901, in so
far as they relate to skimmed or separated milk and replace the
limit of 9 per cent, of total milk solids on which under article 3
of those regulations a presumption that the milk is not genuine
is based, by a limit of 8-7 per cent, of milk solids other than milk
fat.
National Insurance Act, 1911.
Memorandum of the National Health Insurance Commissioners
^England) on the Administration of Sanatorium Benefit.