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xxxiii.
Acts of Parliament for Preventing the Adulteration or
Food and Drink, and of Drugs. (23 and 24 Vict., cap.
84, and 35 and 36 Vict., cap. 74.)
Appointment
of Analyst.
1. In accordance with the provisions of the abovementioned
Acts the United Vestry of St. Margaret and
St. John, Westminster, have appointed Dr. Dupre, of
the Laboratory of the Westminster Hospital, as the Analyst of all
articles of Food, Drink, and Drugs purchased within the abovenamed
parish.
And of
Sanitary
Inspectors.
2. The Vestry have also appointed their Sanitary
Inspectors as Inspectors under these Acts, who shall
procure and submit samples of Articles of Food or
Drink, or Drugs, suspected to be adulterated, to be analysed by
the aforesaid Analyst; and on receiving a certificate stating that
the articles in question are adulterated, shall take the necessary
proceedings before the Justices as the Acts direct.
Purchasers
of articles may
have them
analysed
3. Any purchaser ot any article ot food or Drink,
or Drug, within the said parish, is entitled to take the
same to either of the Inspectors, one of whom will
attend at the Vestry Offices, the Town Hall, Caxton
Street, or No. 3, Trevor Square, Knightsbridge, daily, at half-past
10 o'clock, and on payment to him of a sum of two shillings and
sixpence shall have such article analysed by the Analyst, and shall
receive from him a certificate of the result of his analysis, specifying
whether, in his opinion, such article is adulterated, and also
whether it is so adulterated as to be injurious to the health of persons
eating or drinking the same; and such certificate, duly signed by
the Analyst, shall, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary,
be sufficient evidence of the matter therein certified, and the sum
paid for the certificate shall be deemed part of the costs.
Protection
against articles
being tampered
with.
4. in case of proceedings before the Justices, the
purchaser shall prove to the satisfaction of such justices
that the seller of the article, or his servants, had such
notice of the intention of the purchaser to have it
analysed, and such opportunity of accompanying the purchaser to
an Inspector, as the Justices shall think reasonable, in order to
secure such article from being tampered with by the purchaser.
On complaint
to Inspector
printed forms
to be filled up
by purchasers.
5. for the purpose of facilitating the execution of
these Acts, a printed form will be provided at the
Offices of the Vestry, which any purchaser of any
article suspected to be adulterated may fill up, and
thereupon one of the Inspectors shall take the necessary proceedings.
Penalties for
adulterating,
as recited in
Sees. 1 & 2 of
the Act 35 & 36
Vict.
6. Every person who wilfully admixes or cause others
to admix with any article of Food or Drink any injurious
or poisonous ingredient for the purpose of
adulterating it for sale, and every person who wilfully
admixes, or causes others to admix, any ingredient or
material with any Drug to adulterate it for sale, shall for the first
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