September 23, 1872.] THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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the commissioners or boards of police, or, where there 
are no such commissioners or hoards, the town councils 
for boroughs, within their several jurisdictions, may, 
and when required so to do by the Local Government 
Board in England, or by one of Her Majesty’s Principal 
Secretaries of State in Scotland, or by the Lord Lieu¬ 
tenant or other chief governor or governors in Ireland, 
shall, for their respective city, districts, counties, or 
boroughs, appoint and remove one or more persons 
possessing competent medical, chemical, and microsco¬ 
pical knowledge as analysts of all articles of food, drink, 
and drugs purchased within the said city, metropolitan 
districts, counties, or boroughs, and shall pay to such 
analysts such salary or allowances as they may think fit; 
but such appointments and removals shall at all times be 
subject in England to the approval of the Local Govern¬ 
ment Board, in Scotland of one of Her Majesty’s Princi¬ 
pal Secretaries of State, and in Ireland of the Lord 
Lieutenant or other chief governor or governors. 
Inspectors of nuisances, etc., may submit articles to be 
analysed. 
6 . The inspector of nuisances or the inspector of 
weights and measures, or the inspector of markets, one 
or all of them, as the local authority appointing them 
shall think fit to determine, in every district, county, 
city, or borough, shall procure and submit samples of 
articles of food or drink and drugs suspected to be 
adulterated to be analysed by the analyists appointed 
under this Act, and shall, upon receiving a certificate 
stating that the articles of food or drink or drugs 
are adulterated, cause a complaint of an offence against 
this Act by the party selling or adulterating such 
articles of food or drink or drugs to be made be¬ 
fore a justice of the peace, and thereupon such 
justice shall issue a summons requiring the seller 
or the adulterator to appear before two justices of 
the peace at petty sessions in England, or before 
two justices of the peace in the justice of the peace 
court, or before the sheriff substitute of the county, 
or before any magistrate acting under any general or 
local police Act in Scotland, or before justices of petty 
sessions or divisional justices in Ireland, to answer such 
complaint, and such summons shall be served by de¬ 
livering the same, or a true copy thereof, upon the pre¬ 
mises where such samples were obtained or sold, and the 
expense of such prosecutions, if not ordered to be paid 
by the party complained against, shall be deemed part of 
the expense of executing this Act. 
Analysts to make reports quarterly to local authorities. 
7. The analysts appointed under this Act shall report 
quarterly to the local authorities appointing them the 
number of articles of food, drink, or drugs analysed by 
them under this Act during the foregoing quarter, and 
shall specify the nature and kind of adulterations de¬ 
tected in such articles of food, drink, and drugs, and all 
such reports shall be read at the meetings of the local 
authorities appointing such analyists. 
Proof of identity of articles submitted to analysts. 
8 . On the hearing by the justices, sheriff substitute, 
magistrate, or divisional justice of any complaint under 
this Act in any district, county, city, or borough wherein 
analyists shall have been appointed under this Act, the 
purchaser, or inspector of nuisances, or the inspector of 
weights and measures, or the inspector of markets, as I 
the case may be, shall prove to the satisfaction of such J 
justices, sheriff' substitute, magistrate, or divisional jus- ■ 
tice that the article of food or drink or drugs alleged to 
be adulterated was delivered to the analysts in the same 
condition as regards its purity or impurity as it was 
when received from the seller. 
Purchaser of articles of food, etc., may require same 
to be analysed. 
9. Any purchaser of any aiticle of food or drink or 
drugs in any district, county, city, or borough where 
there is any analyst appointed under this Act shall be 
entitled, on payment to the inspector or inspector’s ap¬ 
pointed under this Act of a sum not less than two shil¬ 
lings and sixpence nor more than ten shillings and six¬ 
pence, which shall be accounted for to the local authority 
appointing such inspector or inspectors, to have any 
such article analysed by any analyst who may bo ap¬ 
pointed for such district, county, city, or borough, and 
to receive from such analyst a certificate of the result of 
his analysis, specifying whether, in his opinion, such 
article is adulterated, and also whether, if it be an ar¬ 
ticle of food or drink, it is so adulterated as to be inju¬ 
rious to the health of persons eating or drinking the 
same, and such certificate, duly signed by such analyst, 
shall, in the absence of any evidence before the court 
to the contrary, be sufficient evidence of the matters 
therein certified, and the sum so directed to be paid 
for such certificate shall be deemed part of the costs. 
Articles of food, etc., ordered for analysis to be received, and 
samples retained by inspectors. 
10 . All articles of food, drink, or drugs to be ana¬ 
lysed by the analysts appointed under this Act shall be 
received by the inspectors appointed by the local autho¬ 
rities, and from all such articles of food, drink, or drugs 
samples shall be taken and sealed in the presence of 
the analysts by the inspectors, to be retained by them 
and produced in case the justices, sheriff substitute, 
magistrate, or divisional justice shall order other analyses 
to be made. 
As to expenses of executing Act. 
11 . The expense of executing this Act shall be borne, 
in the city of London and the liberties thereof, out of 
the consolidated rates raised by the commissioners of 
sewers of the city of London and the liberties thereof, 
and in the rest of the metropolis out of any rates or 
funds applicable to the purposes of the Act for the 
better local management of the metropolis, and in 
counties out of the county rate, or out of the grand jury 
cess in Ireland, and in boroughs out of the borough 
fund, and in Scotland out of the police money in 
counties and boroughs respectively. 
Proceedings by indictment , etc., not to be affected. 
12. Nothing in this Act contained shall be held to 
affect the power of proceeding by indictment, or to take 
away any other remedy against any offender under this 
Act. 
Medical Attend ax ce by Druggists. 
Yesterday Mr. Richards held an inquest at the White 
Hart, A r ine Court, Commercial Street, on Joshua Charles 
Salmon, aged one year and five months. The child had 
been attended by Mr. Stubbs, druggist, Commercial 
Street, from the 11th to the 15th instant (when it died 
suddenly). Mr. Richards animadverted severely upon 
the fact of druggists usurping the functions of qualified 
medical men. Verdict “Death from natural causes.” 
Mr. Richards held another inquest yesterday after¬ 
noon at the Knave of Clubs, Club Row, Bethnal Green, 
on Margaret Elizabeth Hughes, aged three months, who 
had died from want of her natural aliment. In this 
case the deceased had also been attended by a druggist 
named Mr. Swire. As in the previous case, Mr. 
Richards indulged in some rather severe strictures. A 
similar verdict was returned. 
Science Primers. Chemistry, by Professor Roscoe, 
F.R.S. Physics, by Professor Balfour Stewart, 
F.R.S. London, Macmillan and Co., 1872. 
Every teacher of science must at times have felt the 
want of sound elementary text books on science, suitable 
for quite young boys. The science-primers before us ad- 
