February 25, 1871.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
G95 
Performance of the Duties of Justices of the Peace and 
of Sessions within England and Wales with respect to 
Summary Convictions and Orders,” and in Scotland the 
ordinary rules regulating the procedure of justices of the 
peace so far as the same are respectively applicable, shall 
extend and apply to cases arising under this Act in 
England or Scotland ; and all moneys arising; from pe¬ 
nalties under this Act in any county, city, district, or bo¬ 
rough where there are analysts appointed under this Act 
shall, when paid or recovered, he paid in England and 
Ireland to the vestry, district hoard, commissioners, 
county treasurer, or town council for such county, city, 
district, or borough respectively, to he applied for the 
-general purposes of such vestry, district hoard, commis¬ 
sioners, county, city, or borough respectively, and to the 
collector of rogue money for each county in Scotland. 
9. All proceedings under this Act in Ireland as to com¬ 
pelling the appearance of any such person or of any 
witness, and as to the hearing and determination of such 
complaints, and as to the making and executing of such 
orders, and as to the applications of fines, amerciaments, 
and forfeited recognizances imposed or levied under this 
Act at petty sessions, shall he subject in all respects to 
the provisions of the “Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 
1851,” as the same is amended by the “ Petty Sessions 
Clerk (Ireland) Act, 1858 ” (when the case shall be heard 
in any petty sessions district), and to the provisions of 
the Acts relating to the divisional police offices (when 
the case shall be heard in the police district of Dublin 
metropolis), so far as the said provisions shall be con¬ 
sistent with any special provisions of this Act; and when 
any fine or penalty is imposed at any of the divisional 
police offices of Dublin metropolis, or by the justices in 
any corporate town, under the provisions of this Act, 
such fines and penalties shall be paid over to the same 
purposes and appropriated and applied in the same manner 
as is now by law authorized in respect of fines and pe¬ 
nalties imposed at such divisional police offices, or by 
the justices in any such corporate town respectively. 
10. In Ireland any person who has been convicted of 
any offence punishable by this Act may appeal to the 
next court of quarter sessions to be held in the same 
division of the county where the order shall be made by 
any justice or justices in any petty sessions district, or 
to the recorder at his next sessions where the order shall 
be made by the divisional justices in the police district of 
Dublin metropolis, or to the recorder of any corporate or 
borough town when the order shall be made by any jus¬ 
tice or justices in such corporate or borough town (unless 
when any such sessions shall commence within seven 
days from the date of any such order, in which case, if 
the appellant sees fit, the appeal may be made to the 
next succeeding sessions to be held for such division or 
town); and it shall be lawful for such court of. quarter 
sessions or recorder, as the case may be, to decide such 
appeal, if made in such form and manner, and with such 
notices as are required by the Petty Sessions Acts .re¬ 
spectively hereinbefore mentioned as to appeals against 
orders made by justices at petty sessions; and.all the 
provisions of the said Petty Sessions Acts respectively as 
to making appeals and as to executing the orders made 
on appeal, or the original orders where the appeals shall 
not be duly prosecuted, shall also apply to any appeal or 
like order to be made under the provisions of this 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 applic¬ 
able to the purposes of the Act for the better local man¬ 
agement of the metropolis, and in counties out of the 
county rate, and in boroughs out of the borough fimd, or 
out of the rogue money in counties in Scotland. 
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. 
A Child Poisoned by Mistake. 
The following paragraph appeared under the above 
heading in the Manchester Guardian, Feb. 18th, 1871 :— 
“ Yesterday, the City coroner (Mr. E. Herford) held 
an inquest touching the death of Florence Adelaide Live- 
sey, 11 months old, daughter of Mr. Gf. Livesey, engraver, 
Bradshaw Street, City Road, Hulme. The mother of 
the child said she had been in the habit of giving the 
deceased child “ infants’ preservative,” to induce sleep. 
She kept the bottle beside another containing liniment 
for a rash on the child’s chest. The liniment was got 
from a chemists’ firm named Wild and Fox.* On Wed¬ 
nesday night her husband handed her the liniment 
bottle instead of the sleeping cordial, and the mistake 
was not noticed until it was too late to save the child. 
The liniment bottle was not labelled ‘ poison.’ The jury 
returned a verdict of ‘ Accidental Death,’ and censured 
the chemists for not putting a poison label o n the bottle.” 
This was supplemented by the following letter : — 
“ Poisonous Medicines. 
“ To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. 
“ Sir,—As one of the jurymen on the inquest on the 
child who was poisoned, I beg to correct your report. It 
was not a chemist, but a medical man, who supplied the 
liniment to the parents, and who was censured by name 
by the jury, because that liniment, with which the child 
was poisoned, was not labelled poison in the way that 
all chemists would do;—had it been done, the poor 
child might in all human probability have been now 
living.—I am, etc. “Thos. Norris. 
“ 100a, Clopton Street, Feb. 20, 1871.” 
A Druggist Fined for Selling Methylated Spirit 
without a Licence. 
On Monday, at the Huddersfield Police Court, Robert 
Robinson, Chemist and Druggist, Lockwood, was fined 
£12. 10s. for selling methylated spirit without having a 
licence. The supervisor of excise, who attended to pro¬ 
secute, stated that the defendant had been served with 
ample notice that he was not entitled to sell the spirit 
without having a licence.— Leeds Mercury. 
Suicide by Carbolic Acid. 
An inquest has been held at Liverpool upon the body 
of John Perkins, a brushmaker, forty years of age. The 
deceased had lately been in low spirits and rambled in 
his talk. On the evening of his death he went to *bed 
after supper. His landlady hearing the sound of a fall 
in his room, went upstairs and found him lying on the 
floor in a dying state. There was a very strong smell 
of carbolic acid. She found a half-pint bottle with a 
little in it on the table, and a tumbler smelling very 
strongly of the acid. Medical assistance was called in, 
but the man was dead when it arrived. 
The bottle, which was produced, was labelled “ car¬ 
bolic acid,” but not “poison.” 
Dr. Bligh said tha t he was of opinion that the deceased 
died from poisoning by carbolic acid. The small portion 
left in the bottle was a mixture of carbolic acid, glycerine 
and water, with impurities. 
The jury returned a verdict of “ Suicide during tem¬ 
porary insanity.”— Liverpool Courier. 
Suicide by Morphia. 
An inquest has been held at the German Hospital 
concerning the death of Frederick Meyer, aged nineteen. 
* On referring to the Register, we find that this is a mis- 
atement. Messrs. Wild and Fox are not on the Register 
t Chemists and Druggists, but are, we presume, the pro- 
rietors of an open surgery.— Ed. Pharm. Journ. 
