Foods, their composition and analysis : a manual for the use of analytical chemists and others : with an introductory essay on the history of adulteration / by Alexander Wynter Blyth.

Date:: 1896

Credit: Foods, their composition and analysis : a manual for the use of analytical chemists and others : with an introductory essay on the history of adulteration / by Alexander Wynter Blyth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$in all other parts of the metropolis, the vestries and district hoards analysts Acting in execution of the Act for the better local management of tlie are^to be* metropolis, the court of quarter sessions of every coimty, and the appointed in town council of every burgh having a separate court of quarter England, sessions, or having under any general or local Act of Parliament or otherwise a separate police establishment, may, as soon as convenient after the passing of this Act, where no appointment has been hitherto made, and in all cases as and when vacancies in the office occur, or when required so to do by the Local Government Board, shall for their respective city, districts, counties, or boroughs, ajipoiut one or more persons possessing competent knowledge, skill, and experience, as analysts of all articles of food and drugs sold within the said city, metropolitan districts, counties, or boroughs, and shall pay to such analysts such remuneration as shall be mutually agreed upon, and may remove him or them as they shall deem proper; but such appKiintments and removals shall at all times be subject to the approval of the Local Government Board, who may require satis- factory proof of competency to be supplied to them, and may give their approval absolutely or with modifications as to the period of the appointment and removal, or otherwise; Provided, that no person shall hereafter be appointed an analyst for any place imder this section who shall be engaged directly or indirectly in any trade «r business connected with the sale of food or drugs in such place. In Scotland the like powei-s shall be conferred and the like duties Appoint- shall be imposed upon the ccmimissioners of supply at their ordinary ments in meetings for counties, and the commissioners or boards of police, or ^'^o*^. •where there are no such commissioners or boards, upon the town councils for burghs within their several jurisdictions; provided that one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State in Scotland shall be substituted for the Local Government Board of England. In Ireland the like powers and duties shall be conferred and In Ireland, imposed respectively upon the grand jury of every county and town council of every borough ; provided that the Local Government Board of Ireland shall be substituted for the Local Government Board of England. 11. The town council of any borough may agree that the analyst Town appointed by any neighbouring borough or for the county in which the Councils borough is situated, shall act for their borough during such time as the ^'j^^ analyst saitl council shall think proper, and shall make due ]irovision for the of neigh- paj'ment of his remimeration, and if such analyst shall consent, he bouring shall during such time be the analyst for such borough for the pur- county or poses of the Act. . 12. Any purchaser of any article of food or of a drug in any place Any being a district, county, city, or borough where there is any analyst purchaser of appointed under this or any Act hereby repealed shall be entitled, on payment to such analyst of a sum not exceeding ten shillings and entitled, on sixpence, or if there be no such analyst then acting for such place, to payment of a the analyst of another place, of such sum as may be agreed upon between fee, to have such person and the analyst, to have such article analysed Ijy such ^^,1^'^'^^'^ analyst, and to receive from him a certificate of the result of his ceitiflcate. analysis. 13. Any medical officer of health, inspector of nuisances, or inspec- Medical tor of weights and measures, or any inspector of a market, or any °' police constable under the direction and at the cost of the local {l^^^l^l^^g authority appointing such officer, inspector, or constable, or charged and certain witii the execution of this Act, may procure any sample of food or other drugs, and if he suspect the same to have been sold to him contrary offloials may to any provision of this Act, shall submit the same to be analysed by the analyst of the district or place for which he acts, or if there be analysis, no such analyst then acting for such place to the analyst of another place, and such analyst shall, upon receiving payment as is provided in$