A manual of public health law / by Bertram Jacobs.

  • Jacobs, Bertram.
Date:
1912
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Credit: A manual of public health law / by Bertram Jacobs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MISCELLANEOUS. Phosphorus Matches.—The White Phosphorus Matches Prohibition Act, 1908, prohibits the use of the substance usually known as white or yellow phosphorus in the manufac- ture of matches. It further prohibits the sale, the offer or ex- posure for sale, or the possession for purposes of sale of matches so made and also the importation thereof. On the other hand, a person manufacturing or proposing to manufacture matches by way of trade may petition the Board of Trade for a grant of a licence to use any patented process for the manufacture of matches without white phosphorus, other than matches intended to strike only on a specially prepared surface. Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops.—By virtue of sect. 34 of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878, and sect. 9 of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1886 (not repealed by the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, supra, p. 175), the Local Government Board may from time to time make general or special orders for the following purposes, or any of them: (i.) For the registration with the local authority of all persons carrying on the trade of cowkeepers, dairymen, or purveyors of milk, (ii.) for the inspection of cattle in dairies, and for prescribing and regulating the lighting, ventilation, cleansing, drainage and water supply of dairies and cowsheds in the occu- pation of persons following the trade of cowkeepers or dairy- men, (iii.) for securing the cleanliness of milk-stores, milk- shops, and of milk-vessels used for containing milk for sale by such persons, (iv.) for prescribing precautions to be taken for protecting milk against infection or contamination, (v.)for authorising a local authority to make regulations for the pur- poses aforesaid, or any of them, subject to such conditions (if any) as the Local Government Board may prescribe (r). Sale of Poisons.—The Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908, regulates the 6ale of certain poisonous substances by providing for the labelling thereof as “ poisonous,” and by certain other (r) Orders made under the above provisions are set out in Vol. II. of Lumley’s Public Health.