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The present Public Health Committee then asked the
Hoard to modify these conditions in the direction of making
the two analysts quite independent of each other, but the
Board have replied regretting that they do not see their way
to assent to the second appointment on the terms suggested.
So an impasse has arisen, and instead of the samples being
increased the Public Health Committee have ordered that
only 350 samples a year shall be taken, which is detrimental
alike to the consumer and honest trader.
Warra nlies.
At a Conference of Representatives of Metropolitan
Borough Councils as to Milk Warranties, held at the Southwark
Town Hall on May 30th, 1906, the following resolutions
were adopted:—
" That in the opinion of this Conference the provisions
of Section 25 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875, and
Section 20 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Amendment
Act, 1899, operate to the prejudice of the purchaser and
the public health, and should be repealed, leaving the
seller of milk to his remedy at common law against the
person from whom he purchased it."
" That notices in shops, &c., to the effect that milk
sold therein is not warranted as pure shall be no defence."
" That the act of mixing water, or separated milk with
whole milk for the purpose of sale, should be made a penal
offence."
" That any Metropolitan Borough Council should be
enabled to sample at any railway station milk coming to
dealers in the area of that Borough, although the station
may be in another district."
Proceedings under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts were
instituted by the Council in the following cases:—