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3. That in all prosecutions under the Acts, when two or more persons
are brought before the Court, the onus shall be thrown npon the
original defendant to prove to the satisfaction of the Court that he
has sold the article as he received it, and that the adulteration has
been carried out by another defendant before he shall be exempt
from conviction.
4. With any article bearing a label, the label shall describe the contents
of the package, and when the contents are sold as a mixture, the
proportions of the mixture shall be stated. The article sold shall
be held to conform to the name or description on the label to which
the greatest prominence is given, and any article differing in
substance or purity or proportion from such description or descriptions
shall be held to be an adulteration wider the Act.
5. That a standard for milk, and milk products and other articles
mitting of definition, should be fixed by the Local Government Board,
with power for them to alter in case of exceptional seasons.
6. That all articles of Food and Drugs imported as merchandise into,
and landed at any port in Great Britain and Ireland which come
from a foreign country, shall be subject to examination, inspection
and analysis by officers of the Sanitary Authority of the Port, in
the same way as tea is now examined by an Analyst appointed by
the Commissioners for Customs under Sec. 30 of the Sale of Food
and Drugs Act, 1875.
7. That a minimum penalty of 405. be imposed for all offences under
the Act, and that the defendant shall be liable to a double penalty
with or without imprisonment in cases of second or subsequent
offences.
8. That all itinerant vendors of Food or Drugs shall only sell from
vehicles or vessels or other receptacles having printed thereon the
name and address of the person, who shall be responsible as master
for such sale; and all itinerant purveyors of milk, whether
employers or employed, shall be registered with the County Council
of the district, and it shall be an offence, under the Act for the
vendor of any article to give a false name and address of himself,
or his employer, to an officer under the Act.
9. That a copy of the resolutions passed by this Conference be forwarded
to the Select Committee appointed by the House of Commons to
enquire into the working of the Acts, with the request that evidence
may be called before the Committee in support of the views urged
therein.
A letter in support of the above resolutions was, by the
direction of the Sanitary and Sewers Committee, addressed to
the Select Committee of the House of Commons having the
subject under consideration.
BOUNDARY SEWER.
The Surveyor of the Board having reported that the old
boundary sewer between Surrey Row and Pocock Street was in
a defective and an insanitary condition, and no longer required,
only four small houses which were being connected with the new
sewer in Surrey Row draining into it, the Sanitary and Sewers