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Adulteration of Food, Drink, and Drugs Act, 1872.
This Act having passed in August, 1872, the Board, in the
following October, proceeded to take into consideration the
question of the course to be pursued for giving effect to the
Act, by the appointment of an Analyst and other Officers, and
the mode of payment of same, &c., and ultimately Resolved
to appoint a duly qualified person as an Analyst, at a
salary of £100 per annum, without fees, and also an Inspector,
and one of the Sanitary Inspectors was appointed accordingly.
A communication having been received from the Holborn
District Board of Works, suggesting for consideration the
question of a joint appointment of an Analyst by the Holborn,
St. Giles', and Clerkenwell authorities, the Vestry agreed to
join those Boards of Works in such appointment, and after
sundry meetings upon the subject between the committees
appointed by the several Boards, it was agreed that each
Board should offer a salary of £ 100 per annum, it appearing
to be more calculated to secure the services of a bigh-class
Profe sor, than by each Parish appointing, perhaps, a different
gentleman. Advertisements were issued which resulted in
the appointment, in March 1873, of Dr. Redwood, Piofessor
of Chemistry to the Pharmaceutical Society, 17, Bloomsbury
Square, for one year from Lady-day, such appointment being
however, separate and distiuct by each Board concerned.
After several conferences between the Sanitary Committee
of the Vestry and Dr. Redwood, a notice was issued and
published in the Parish announcing the appointment, and that
arrangements had been made for putting the Act into
immediate operation; and a code of regulations was drawn up
and adopted for the observance of the Analyst and Inspector
in carrying on their operations. A copy of which Notice and
Regulations is herewith annexed (see Appendix B.)