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1908.
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B o r o u g h S a n a t o r i u m a n d D e p u t y Medical Officer of H e a l t h for Brighton. Dr. L e c k y was a m a n of u n u s u a l ability, h i g h character, a n d c h a r m i n g personality. He was devoted to his work, and, h a d he lived, he would n n d o u b t e d y have occupied a d i s t i n g u i s h e d position m the p u b l i e h e a l t h service. W h e r e v e r he went he m a d e friends, who will l o n g cherish his memory. F r o m a m e d i c a l friend who k n e w Dr. L e c k y well at B r i g h t o n comes this t r i b u t e : - - " I n the short time we h a d k n o w n h i m at B r i g h t o n we h a d come to love him. His b r i g h t n e s s , unselfishness, a n d u n f a i l i n g courtesy and k i n d n e s s to a l l compelled affection. I never h e a r d h i m say a w o r d I w o u l d have w i s h e d unsaid, and never saw h i m do a t h i n g I would have wished undone. His m o d e s t y was almost a source of weakness, so over-anxious was he always not to h u r t another's feelings. I cannot recall a n o t h e r character quite like h i m . " Dr. L e c k y was an occasional c o n t r i b u t o r to P~rBLIC HEALTH, and an article from his pen on Calmette's T u b e r c u l i n O p h t h a l m i c Reaction appeared in the A p r i l n u m b e r . T h i s was his last c o n t r i b u t i o n to a m e d i c a l journal. H i s u n t i m e l y death is a sad e n d i n g to a career of g r e a t usefulness a n d g r e a t e r promise. [~ECENT P U B L I C H E A L T H
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Atmosphere. FLEMMINC-. Ueber die Arten und die Verbreitung der lebensfghigen Mikroorganismen in der Atmosphiire. Zeit. fur Hygiene, 1908, lviii, 345. Disinfectants. BLYTH (M. W.). Fleas and disinfectants. Lndian Meal. Gaz., 1908, ~liii, 92. Disinfection. FIRTH (Lieut.-CoL R. tt.). Disinfection by formaldetlyde. Jour. Roy. Army Med. Corps, 1908, ~, 356. -- SCHNEIDER (H.) and E. SELIGMANN. Studien zur Wertbestimmung ehemischer desinfektionsmittel. Zeit. fur Hygiene, 1908, lviii, 413.--UY~kMA and Others. Uber die Schneli--und Massendesinfektionsmethode mit Fornlalin--Wasserdampf das Japanische Verfahren. Zeit. fur Hygiene, 1908, lviii, 465. Dust. SMITH (E. S.). Street cleansing in relation to the growth of motor traffic. Jonr. Roy. Inst. of Pub. Health, 1908, ~vi, 206. Dysentery. ABE (N.). Ueber die aetiologie der dysenteric. Arch. ]ur Hygiene, 1908, l~cv, 107. Glanders. BRUCE (H. W.) and H. H. RAYNER. Two cases of acute glanders. Med. Chron., 1908, ~v., 1. Hospitals. HOLMES (B.). A suggestive plan for a modern general metropolitan hospital of 500 beds. Illustrations. Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc., 1908, l, 1025. Hygiene. BLACK (E.). Public health administration in Australasia. Jour. Roy. Inst. of Pub. Health , 1908, ~cvi, 231.--GOLDSTRAW (W.). Engineering and areMteeture in the promotion of public health by pnblie bodies. Jour. Roy. Inst. of Pub. Health, 1908, mvi, 193.--LEISHMAN (Lieut.-Col. W . B . ) . International Congress of Hygiene, Berlin, September, 1907. Jour. Roy. Army Med. Corps, 1908, ~, 393.
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Immunity. GOODMAN (H. M.). Tile duration and disappearance of passive diphtheric immunity. Jonr. of Infect. Dis., 1908, v, 184.~--RICI(ETl'S (It. T.) and L. GOMEZ. Studies in immunityin Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Jour. Infect. Dis., 1908, v, 2 2 1 . STONE (W. J.) aud E. C. L. ~IILLEP~. Theoretic considerations relative to immunization by means of the tubercle bacillus and its pr(2ducts. Med. l~ec., New York, 1908, lza~iii, 510. Infant Feeding. BURNET (J.). Some important points in connection with infant feeding. Practitioner, 1908, lxxz, 484.-LADD (3I.). The calorie value of modified milk in its relation to infant feeding. Arch. of Pediatrics, 1908, ~ezv, 178.--TOWNSEND (C. W.). The use of fat-free milk in infant feeding. Brit. Med. & Surg. Jou~'. 1908, clviii, 879. Inoculation. SANBORN (G. P.). The scope of therapeutic inoculation. Brit. Med. & Surg. Jonr., 1908, elviii, 484. Malaria. CELLI (A.). The campaign against malaria in Italy. Report to the fourteenth International Congress of Hygiene in Berlin. Jour. Trop. Med., 1908, ~i, 101. Measles. BUCHAN (J. J.). Preventive measures in measles. Jour. Roy. Inst. of Pub. Health, 1908, ~vi, 214. Meningitis, Cerebro-spinal. DUNN (C. It.). The sermn treatment of epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis. Boston Med. & Sz~rg. Jour., 1908, clviii, 370. Milk. DELEPINE (S.). Pathogenic properties of, and amount of dirt contained in, the milk supplied to the town of Manchester during the ten years 1897 to 1906 inclusive. Med. Chron., 1908, ~iv, 473.--ttASKELL (C. M.). A typhoid fever epidemic from infected milk. Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc., 1908, l, 846.-ROSENAU (M. J.) and G. W. 2\IcCOY. The germicidal property of milk. Jour. Med. Research, 1908, ~viii, 165. Mortality. G A F F I K I N (P. E.). Some causes of infantile mortality. ,?our. Roy. Inst. of Pub. Health, 1908, wvi, 220.--GETTY (S. E.). Infant mortality in the smnmer months. Methods adopted in Yonkers for its reduction and the results. Jour: Amer. Med. Assoc., 1908, l, 1008. 0psonins. REYN (A.) and R. KYER-PETERSEN. Observations on the opsonins, with special regard to h p n s vulgaris. Lancet, 1908, i, 919, 1000. Plague. H A F F K I N E (W. M.). On the present methods of combating the plague. Australas. Med. Gaz., 1908, ~viil, 74.--TItOMPSON (J. A.). Protection of India from invasion by bubonic plague. Australas. Med. Gaz., 1908, azaevii, 71. WHERRY (W. B.), A. W A L K E R and E. H. HOWELL. Plague atnong rata in San Francisco. Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc., 1908, 5, 1165. Poor Law Service. BOYCE (J. W.). Some remarks on the Irish Poor Law Medical service. Brit. Med. Jcur., 1908, i, 852. Scarlet Fever. ttENENWAY (H. B.). The scarlet fever epidemic of 1907. Jour. A~ner. Med. Assoc., 1908, l, I l l S . KERR (H.). Observations on the bacteriology of scarlet fever. Lancet, 1908, i, 995.
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Schools. JARl~ETT (E.). Health of o~..trhigh school children. Med. l?ee., New York, 1908, I~ciii, 601. Serum. BERGEY (D. H.). Factors determining the coagulation of blood serum by bacteria. Jour. Med. Research, 1908, eviii, 31. CURRIE (J. R.). The serum disease in man after single and repeated doses. Glasgow Med. Jour., 1908, l~i~, 277. -GOODMAN (H. M.). On t~e leucocytotoxins of normal sermn. Jour. of Infect. Dis., 1908, v, 173. McCOY (Capt. D.). Observations on the significance of the h~emosozic value of the blood sermn. Bio-Chem. Jour., 1908, iii, 97. PATON (D. iV[.). & new generalization in serum therapy. Intercot. Med. Jour. o/ Australas., 1908, ~iii, 79. STEINHARDT (E.) and E . J . BANZttAF. Is the present method of standardizing antidiphtherie serum according to antitoxin units therapeutically accurate ? Jou~'. Infect. Dis., 1908, v, 203. Tuberculosis. ANDERSON (J. F.). The frequency of tubercle bacilli in the market milk of the city of Washington, D.C. Jour. of Infect. Dis., J908, v, 107. BERN-~ BACH (P.). Blutuntersuehungen auf tuberkuloseimmunkSrper. Zeit. fur Tubevkulose, 1908, ~cii, 184. - - B R O W N (L.) and E. G. POPE. The ultimate test of the sanatorium treatment of puhnonary tuberculosis and its application to the results obtained in the Adh'ondach Cottage Sanitarium. Zeit. fur Tuberkulose, 1908, vcii, 206.--LANDIS (H. R. M... Agglutination studies in tuberculosis. Jouv. Med. Resea~,ch, 1908, "~viii, 19. MATHESON (Sir R ~. The Dublin Tuberculosis Exhibition of 1907, and the lessons to be learned from it. Dublin Jour. Med. Sci., 1908, c~vcv, 24l. -MILLER. (J.). Note upon the tubereulo-opsonic index of the urine and swea~ in health and in tuberculous disease. Lancet, 1908. i, 998. - W A L K E R (A.). The provision of sanatoria for the curative treatment of phthisis among the poorer classes. Edinb. Med. Jour., 1908, ~ i i i , 321. Typhoid Fever. BLUM (L.). A clinical lecture on the value of laboratory methods in the diagnosis of typhoid fever. Med. Press. 1908, i, 340. Water. REVAS (D.). Contribution to the differentiation of bacillus coli eommunis from allied species in drinking water. Jour. Med. Research, 1908, mviii, 81. LAW HIGH
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COURT OF JUSTICE. KING'S BENCH DIVISION. February l l t h , 1908. BEFORE ALVERSTO~E, L.C.J. A . T . LAWRENCE & SUTTON, J J . Sale of Food a n d D r u g s A c t s - - M i l k Sample taken b y A s s i s t a n t I n s p e c t o r - - P r o c e e d i n g s by Inspector. A n inspector under the sale of Food.& Drugs Acts, directed his assistant to procure a sample of milk in course of delivery, which he did. The inspeetor sent the sample f o r analysis, and instituted proceedings under the sale of Food & Drugs Act, 1879, Sec. 3. I t was held that he was entitled to do so, although the assistant could himself have proceeded under the Act. T h i s was a c~se stated b y j u s t i c e s of Middlesex, on the h e a r i n g of an i n f o r m a t i o n b y W a l t e r Tyler, a n i n s p e c t o r of w e i g h t s a n d measures, a n d also an i n s p e c t o r u n d e r the Sale of F o o d a n d D r u g s Acts,
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for t h e c o u n t y of Middlesex. The information a l l e g e d that he did procure at, the place of delivery a certain s a m p l e of m i l k in com'se of d e l i v e r y b y the D a i r y S u p p l y Co., L i m i t e d , to the g u a r d i a n s of the poor of t h e Brentford Union, the p u r c h a s e r s or consignees in pursuance of a contract for the sale to the said g u a r d i a n s of the Brentford Union, such pro'chasers or consignees of such milk, and that s u s p e c t i n g the same to have been sold b y the r e s p o n d e n t s c o n t r a r y to the provisions of the Sale of F o o d and D r u g s Acts 1875 to 1899, the a p p e l l a n t d i d s u b m i t t h e same to be analysed b y the p u b l i c analyst, when the same was found to have been u n l a w f u l l y sold b y the respondents, c o n t r a r y to the provisions of the said Sale of Food and D r u g s Acts, i n a s m u c h as it h a d been d e p r i v e d Of fat to the extent of 9 per cent,., w i t h o u t disclosure h a v i n g been p r e v i o u s l y m a d e of such alteration. The s a m p l e in question was t a k e n b y one A n d e r s o n , an assistant inspector of weights a n d m e a s u r e s for Middlesex, on T y l e r ' s instructions, b u t T y l e r was not present. T y l e r sent the s a m p l e to be a n a l y s e d and i n s t i t u t e d proceedings u n d e r the Sale of F o o d and D r u g s A m e n d m e n t Act, 1879, See. 3, w h i c h is as follows. " A n y m e d i c a l officer of health, inspec"" mr of nuisances, or i n s p e c t o r of weights a n d "'measures. or any i n s p e c t o r of a market, or any " police constable u n d e r the direction, and at the "' cost of the local a u t h o r i t y a p p o i n t i n g such officer, "" inspector, or constable, or c h a r g e d w i t h the exe" ' c a t i o n of t h i s Act, m a y procure at the place of " d e l i v e r y a n y s a m p l e of a n y m i l k in course of "" d e l i v e r y ~o the p u r c h a s e r or consignee in p n r "" suance of atly contract for the sale to such p a r "chaser or consignee of such m i l k ; and such "officer. inspector, or constable,, if he suspect the "' same ~o have been sold c o n t r a r y to a n y of the '" provisions of the p r i n c i p a l Act, shall s u b m i t the " s a m e to be analysed, a n d the same shall be '" analysed, a n d p r o c e e d i n g s shall be taken, a n d "" penalties on conviction be enforced in like m a n "ner in all respects as if such officer, inspector, or "constable h a d p u r c h a s e d the same from the "" seller or consignor u n d e r Section 13 of the pri n"" cipal Act." It was contended on b e h a l f of the Dairy Company, that as the s a m p l e was actually taken b y Anderson. a d u l y qualified, t h o u g h an assistant inspector, the proceedings o u g h t to have been taken b y him. The justices b e i n g in d o u b t dismissed the information. Eustaee Hills a p p e a r e d for the appellant, Avory K.C.. and Clarke Hall for the respondent. The court allowed the appeal. L o r d Alvers~one in t h e course of his j u d g m e n t said t h a t a n inspector could procure a s a m p l e u n d e r Section 3 of the Act of 1879, b y a p r o p e r agent. It had been h e l d in Horder v. Scott, 5 Q. B.D. 552. that an officer m i g h t act b y ' d e p u t y in t a k i n g samples u n d e r Section 13 of the Act of 1875, a n d there seemed no reason w h y t h a t decision should not a p p l y to this ease. A n d e r s o n here took the s a m p l e as agent for Tyler, a n d as T y l e r sent it for analysis he was the p r o p e r person to take proeeedings. T h e a p p e a l was therefore allowed/ A. T. L a w r e n c e a n d Sutton, J J . , agreed. [ F o r full r e p o r t see 72 J.P. 132]
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B o r o u g h S a n a t o r i u m a n d D e p u t y Medical Officer of H e a l t h for Brighton. Dr. L e c k y was a m a n of u n u s u a l ability, h i g h character, a n d c h a r m i n g personality. He was devoted to his work, and, h a d he lived, he would n n d o u b t e d y have occupied a d i s t i n g u i s h e d position m the p u b l i e h e a l t h service. W h e r e v e r he went he m a d e friends, who will l o n g cherish his memory. F r o m a m e d i c a l friend who k n e w Dr. L e c k y well at B r i g h t o n comes this t r i b u t e : - - " I n the short time we h a d k n o w n h i m at B r i g h t o n we h a d come to love him. His b r i g h t n e s s , unselfishness, a n d u n f a i l i n g courtesy and k i n d n e s s to a l l compelled affection. I never h e a r d h i m say a w o r d I w o u l d have w i s h e d unsaid, and never saw h i m do a t h i n g I would have wished undone. His m o d e s t y was almost a source of weakness, so over-anxious was he always not to h u r t another's feelings. I cannot recall a n o t h e r character quite like h i m . " Dr. L e c k y was an occasional c o n t r i b u t o r to P~rBLIC HEALTH, and an article from his pen on Calmette's T u b e r c u l i n O p h t h a l m i c Reaction appeared in the A p r i l n u m b e r . T h i s was his last c o n t r i b u t i o n to a m e d i c a l journal. H i s u n t i m e l y death is a sad e n d i n g to a career of g r e a t usefulness a n d g r e a t e r promise. [~ECENT P U B L I C H E A L T H
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Atmosphere. FLEMMINC-. Ueber die Arten und die Verbreitung der lebensfghigen Mikroorganismen in der Atmosphiire. Zeit. fur Hygiene, 1908, lviii, 345. Disinfectants. BLYTH (M. W.). Fleas and disinfectants. Lndian Meal. Gaz., 1908, ~liii, 92. Disinfection. FIRTH (Lieut.-CoL R. tt.). Disinfection by formaldetlyde. Jour. Roy. Army Med. Corps, 1908, ~, 356. -- SCHNEIDER (H.) and E. SELIGMANN. Studien zur Wertbestimmung ehemischer desinfektionsmittel. Zeit. fur Hygiene, 1908, lviii, 413.--UY~kMA and Others. Uber die Schneli--und Massendesinfektionsmethode mit Fornlalin--Wasserdampf das Japanische Verfahren. Zeit. fur Hygiene, 1908, lviii, 465. Dust. SMITH (E. S.). Street cleansing in relation to the growth of motor traffic. Jonr. Roy. Inst. of Pub. Health, 1908, ~vi, 206. Dysentery. ABE (N.). Ueber die aetiologie der dysenteric. Arch. ]ur Hygiene, 1908, l~cv, 107. Glanders. BRUCE (H. W.) and H. H. RAYNER. Two cases of acute glanders. Med. Chron., 1908, ~v., 1. Hospitals. HOLMES (B.). A suggestive plan for a modern general metropolitan hospital of 500 beds. Illustrations. Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc., 1908, l, 1025. Hygiene. BLACK (E.). Public health administration in Australasia. Jour. Roy. Inst. of Pub. Health , 1908, ~cvi, 231.--GOLDSTRAW (W.). Engineering and areMteeture in the promotion of public health by pnblie bodies. Jour. Roy. Inst. of Pub. Health, 1908, mvi, 193.--LEISHMAN (Lieut.-Col. W . B . ) . International Congress of Hygiene, Berlin, September, 1907. Jour. Roy. Army Med. Corps, 1908, ~, 393.
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Immunity. GOODMAN (H. M.). Tile duration and disappearance of passive diphtheric immunity. Jonr. of Infect. Dis., 1908, v, 184.~--RICI(ETl'S (It. T.) and L. GOMEZ. Studies in immunityin Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Jour. Infect. Dis., 1908, v, 2 2 1 . STONE (W. J.) aud E. C. L. ~IILLEP~. Theoretic considerations relative to immunization by means of the tubercle bacillus and its pr(2ducts. Med. l~ec., New York, 1908, lza~iii, 510. Infant Feeding. BURNET (J.). Some important points in connection with infant feeding. Practitioner, 1908, lxxz, 484.-LADD (3I.). The calorie value of modified milk in its relation to infant feeding. Arch. of Pediatrics, 1908, ~ezv, 178.--TOWNSEND (C. W.). The use of fat-free milk in infant feeding. Brit. Med. & Surg. Jou~'. 1908, clviii, 879. Inoculation. SANBORN (G. P.). The scope of therapeutic inoculation. Brit. Med. & Surg. Jonr., 1908, elviii, 484. Malaria. CELLI (A.). The campaign against malaria in Italy. Report to the fourteenth International Congress of Hygiene in Berlin. Jour. Trop. Med., 1908, ~i, 101. Measles. BUCHAN (J. J.). Preventive measures in measles. Jour. Roy. Inst. of Pub. Health, 1908, ~vi, 214. Meningitis, Cerebro-spinal. DUNN (C. It.). The sermn treatment of epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis. Boston Med. & Sz~rg. Jour., 1908, clviii, 370. Milk. DELEPINE (S.). Pathogenic properties of, and amount of dirt contained in, the milk supplied to the town of Manchester during the ten years 1897 to 1906 inclusive. Med. Chron., 1908, ~iv, 473.--ttASKELL (C. M.). A typhoid fever epidemic from infected milk. Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc., 1908, l, 846.-ROSENAU (M. J.) and G. W. 2\IcCOY. The germicidal property of milk. Jour. Med. Research, 1908, ~viii, 165. Mortality. G A F F I K I N (P. E.). Some causes of infantile mortality. ,?our. Roy. Inst. of Pub. Health, 1908, wvi, 220.--GETTY (S. E.). Infant mortality in the smnmer months. Methods adopted in Yonkers for its reduction and the results. Jour: Amer. Med. Assoc., 1908, l, 1008. 0psonins. REYN (A.) and R. KYER-PETERSEN. Observations on the opsonins, with special regard to h p n s vulgaris. Lancet, 1908, i, 919, 1000. Plague. H A F F K I N E (W. M.). On the present methods of combating the plague. Australas. Med. Gaz., 1908, ~viil, 74.--TItOMPSON (J. A.). Protection of India from invasion by bubonic plague. Australas. Med. Gaz., 1908, azaevii, 71. WHERRY (W. B.), A. W A L K E R and E. H. HOWELL. Plague atnong rata in San Francisco. Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc., 1908, 5, 1165. Poor Law Service. BOYCE (J. W.). Some remarks on the Irish Poor Law Medical service. Brit. Med. Jcur., 1908, i, 852. Scarlet Fever. ttENENWAY (H. B.). The scarlet fever epidemic of 1907. Jour. A~ner. Med. Assoc., 1908, l, I l l S . KERR (H.). Observations on the bacteriology of scarlet fever. Lancet, 1908, i, 995.
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Schools. JARl~ETT (E.). Health of o~..trhigh school children. Med. l?ee., New York, 1908, I~ciii, 601. Serum. BERGEY (D. H.). Factors determining the coagulation of blood serum by bacteria. Jour. Med. Research, 1908, eviii, 31. CURRIE (J. R.). The serum disease in man after single and repeated doses. Glasgow Med. Jour., 1908, l~i~, 277. -GOODMAN (H. M.). On t~e leucocytotoxins of normal sermn. Jour. of Infect. Dis., 1908, v, 173. McCOY (Capt. D.). Observations on the significance of the h~emosozic value of the blood sermn. Bio-Chem. Jour., 1908, iii, 97. PATON (D. iV[.). & new generalization in serum therapy. Intercot. Med. Jour. o/ Australas., 1908, ~iii, 79. STEINHARDT (E.) and E . J . BANZttAF. Is the present method of standardizing antidiphtherie serum according to antitoxin units therapeutically accurate ? Jou~'. Infect. Dis., 1908, v, 203. Tuberculosis. ANDERSON (J. F.). The frequency of tubercle bacilli in the market milk of the city of Washington, D.C. Jour. of Infect. Dis., J908, v, 107. BERN-~ BACH (P.). Blutuntersuehungen auf tuberkuloseimmunkSrper. Zeit. fur Tubevkulose, 1908, ~cii, 184. - - B R O W N (L.) and E. G. POPE. The ultimate test of the sanatorium treatment of puhnonary tuberculosis and its application to the results obtained in the Adh'ondach Cottage Sanitarium. Zeit. fur Tuberkulose, 1908, vcii, 206.--LANDIS (H. R. M... Agglutination studies in tuberculosis. Jouv. Med. Resea~,ch, 1908, "~viii, 19. MATHESON (Sir R ~. The Dublin Tuberculosis Exhibition of 1907, and the lessons to be learned from it. Dublin Jour. Med. Sci., 1908, c~vcv, 24l. -MILLER. (J.). Note upon the tubereulo-opsonic index of the urine and swea~ in health and in tuberculous disease. Lancet, 1908. i, 998. - W A L K E R (A.). The provision of sanatoria for the curative treatment of phthisis among the poorer classes. Edinb. Med. Jour., 1908, ~ i i i , 321. Typhoid Fever. BLUM (L.). A clinical lecture on the value of laboratory methods in the diagnosis of typhoid fever. Med. Press. 1908, i, 340. Water. REVAS (D.). Contribution to the differentiation of bacillus coli eommunis from allied species in drinking water. Jour. Med. Research, 1908, mviii, 81. LAW HIGH
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COURT OF JUSTICE. KING'S BENCH DIVISION. February l l t h , 1908. BEFORE ALVERSTO~E, L.C.J. A . T . LAWRENCE & SUTTON, J J . Sale of Food a n d D r u g s A c t s - - M i l k Sample taken b y A s s i s t a n t I n s p e c t o r - - P r o c e e d i n g s by Inspector. A n inspector under the sale of Food.& Drugs Acts, directed his assistant to procure a sample of milk in course of delivery, which he did. The inspeetor sent the sample f o r analysis, and instituted proceedings under the sale of Food & Drugs Act, 1879, Sec. 3. I t was held that he was entitled to do so, although the assistant could himself have proceeded under the Act. T h i s was a c~se stated b y j u s t i c e s of Middlesex, on the h e a r i n g of an i n f o r m a t i o n b y W a l t e r Tyler, a n i n s p e c t o r of w e i g h t s a n d measures, a n d also an i n s p e c t o r u n d e r the Sale of F o o d a n d D r u g s Acts,
HEALTH.
MAY,
for t h e c o u n t y of Middlesex. The information a l l e g e d that he did procure at, the place of delivery a certain s a m p l e of m i l k in com'se of d e l i v e r y b y the D a i r y S u p p l y Co., L i m i t e d , to the g u a r d i a n s of the poor of t h e Brentford Union, the p u r c h a s e r s or consignees in pursuance of a contract for the sale to the said g u a r d i a n s of the Brentford Union, such pro'chasers or consignees of such milk, and that s u s p e c t i n g the same to have been sold b y the r e s p o n d e n t s c o n t r a r y to the provisions of the Sale of F o o d and D r u g s Acts 1875 to 1899, the a p p e l l a n t d i d s u b m i t t h e same to be analysed b y the p u b l i c analyst, when the same was found to have been u n l a w f u l l y sold b y the respondents, c o n t r a r y to the provisions of the said Sale of Food and D r u g s Acts, i n a s m u c h as it h a d been d e p r i v e d Of fat to the extent of 9 per cent,., w i t h o u t disclosure h a v i n g been p r e v i o u s l y m a d e of such alteration. The s a m p l e in question was t a k e n b y one A n d e r s o n , an assistant inspector of weights a n d m e a s u r e s for Middlesex, on T y l e r ' s instructions, b u t T y l e r was not present. T y l e r sent the s a m p l e to be a n a l y s e d and i n s t i t u t e d proceedings u n d e r the Sale of F o o d and D r u g s A m e n d m e n t Act, 1879, See. 3, w h i c h is as follows. " A n y m e d i c a l officer of health, inspec"" mr of nuisances, or i n s p e c t o r of weights a n d "'measures. or any i n s p e c t o r of a market, or any " police constable u n d e r the direction, and at the "' cost of the local a u t h o r i t y a p p o i n t i n g such officer, "" inspector, or constable, or c h a r g e d w i t h the exe" ' c a t i o n of t h i s Act, m a y procure at the place of " d e l i v e r y a n y s a m p l e of a n y m i l k in course of "" d e l i v e r y ~o the p u r c h a s e r or consignee in p n r "" suance of atly contract for the sale to such p a r "chaser or consignee of such m i l k ; and such "officer. inspector, or constable,, if he suspect the "' same ~o have been sold c o n t r a r y to a n y of the '" provisions of the p r i n c i p a l Act, shall s u b m i t the " s a m e to be analysed, a n d the same shall be '" analysed, a n d p r o c e e d i n g s shall be taken, a n d "" penalties on conviction be enforced in like m a n "ner in all respects as if such officer, inspector, or "constable h a d p u r c h a s e d the same from the "" seller or consignor u n d e r Section 13 of the pri n"" cipal Act." It was contended on b e h a l f of the Dairy Company, that as the s a m p l e was actually taken b y Anderson. a d u l y qualified, t h o u g h an assistant inspector, the proceedings o u g h t to have been taken b y him. The justices b e i n g in d o u b t dismissed the information. Eustaee Hills a p p e a r e d for the appellant, Avory K.C.. and Clarke Hall for the respondent. The court allowed the appeal. L o r d Alvers~one in t h e course of his j u d g m e n t said t h a t a n inspector could procure a s a m p l e u n d e r Section 3 of the Act of 1879, b y a p r o p e r agent. It had been h e l d in Horder v. Scott, 5 Q. B.D. 552. that an officer m i g h t act b y ' d e p u t y in t a k i n g samples u n d e r Section 13 of the Act of 1875, a n d there seemed no reason w h y t h a t decision should not a p p l y to this ease. A n d e r s o n here took the s a m p l e as agent for Tyler, a n d as T y l e r sent it for analysis he was the p r o p e r person to take proeeedings. T h e a p p e a l was therefore allowed/ A. T. L a w r e n c e a n d Sutton, J J . , agreed. [ F o r full r e p o r t see 72 J.P. 132]