ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND DRUGS. 599 
be adulterated, with a view to their examination or analysis 
by some duly qualified person appointed for that purpose. 
On the report of such persons, if it confirm the suspicion of 
adulteration, a summons shall be issued and the case be 
investigated before the justices, who shall have power to 
inflict summary punishment, by fine or imprisonment, in 
every case where pecuniary fraud or danger to health shall 
have been proved. The justices should also be empowered 
to publish the names of offenders. The advantages of pub- 
licity have been urged by many witnesses, and especially by 
Dr. Hassall and Mr. Wakley, who attribute a recent great 
diminution in the amount of adulteration to the publication 
of names and other particulars in the reports of the c Lancet 
Commission.’ It is essential that a right of appeal should 
lie to the Court of Quarter Sessions. 
66 With reference to drugs, your committee are of opinion 
that no inspection at the outports would guarantee to the 
consumer the purity of commodities passing through the 
hands of intermediate parties ; and the exclusion of impure 
drugs would operate injuriously, by interfering with the 
supply obtained by scientific processes, calculated to ex- 
tract valuable matter, even from products seemingly almost 
worthless. 
“ It has been suggested that chymists and druggists should 
be allowed to exercise their calling only under licence. At 
present, to use the words of one of the witnesses, Mr. Jacob 
Bell, ‘ a man may be a shoemaker to-day, and a chymist 
and dispenser of drugs to-morrow, though he cannot assume 
the name of “ pharmaceutical chymist.” * [Would there were 
a corresponding advantage possessed by the members of our 
profession — that none but those who had graduated as 
M.R.C.Y.S. should be allowed to assume the name of 
Veterinary Surgeon.] “The question of licences, however, 
may perhaps be properly deferred till it be seen how far the 
efforts of the Pharmaceutical Society and a more general 
system of inspection may prove successful. The existing 
powers of inspection in England are confined to the College 
of Physicians and the Apothecaries’ Company. The powers 
of the latter are very limited, extending only to apothecaries’ 
shops, and in no way to those of chymists and druggists. 
The College of Physicians has authority to inspect both one 
and the other; but this authority is confined to the limits of 
the City of London, where inspection takes place three times 
a year. The inspection, however, seems to be too cursory 
to be of any great utility. 
“ It has been shown that much good has arisen from the 
