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(3). The registration of itinerant vendors, and further provision for
sampling goods in transit.
“(4.) requirement of clear and legible Labelling of Mixtures and
Impoverished Goods.
“(5).—The clear inclusion in the term "Food" of such articles as
Baking Powders, which, under the law as at present construed,
may be so made and sold as to injure the health of the public.
That the Local Government Board, the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and the
various County Councils have their attention called to the importance to the
public of the early recognition and accurate diagnosis of Diphtheria, and that
they be asked to afford medical men facilities for obtaining such bacteriological
assistance as may lead to the prompt recognition of the disease.
That Municipal Authorities should be empowered to establish and maintain
Crematoria.
That Testators should be empowered to direct how their bodies are to be
disposed of, and executors be compelled to observe such directions.
That it is desirable in the interests of Public Health that the present permissive
action provided in the Public Health Act, 1875, to construct Public Slaughter
Houses be made compulsory, and that after the building of such houses notice
be given to owners of all Private Slaughter Houses that at the expiration of
two or three years no further slaughtering can be permitted in any but
Public Slaughter Houses.
That it is desirable that a representation be made to Government that the
costs incurred in Port Sanitary Work, in seeking to protect the country from
the invasion of Cholera should be paid in whole or in part by the State.