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Analyst, on the 13th of December, 18G0, an
appointment that was confirmed by the Home
Secretary, the late Sir George Cornewall Lewis, on
the 28th of December, 1860. My appointment to this
office has never yet been made public, and I have
never had put at my disposal the means of carrying
my appointment into effect. The analysis of food
for the purpose of detecting adulteration demands
extensive chemical apparatus and an efficient
microscope. I possess the latter, and I have been
enabled to make use, through the kindness of friends,
of the former, in those parishes where the office
of Food Analyst has not remained a dead letter.
In this way I have been enabled to give opinions in
the few cases that have come before me. I have no
doubt, however, that if the Local Authority thought
it desirable that people should not be cheated and
poisoned by their food, that this office might be
made most efficient, and that the publication of
the names of only a few of the evil doers would have
a most salutary effect upon the whole herd of those
who strive to profit at the expense of their neighbours'
pockets, health, or lives.
METROPOLIS MANAGEMENT AMENDMENT
ACT.
Before concluding, I would remind you that the
Act which called the Medical Officer of Health into
existence, and which has given a new direction to