Report of the Health Officer

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1898 - Public health

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Page 56 - Provided that no person shall be guilty of any such offence as aforesaid in respect of the sale of an article of food or a drug mixed with any matter or ingredient not injurious to health, and not intended fraudulently to Increase its bulk, weight, or measure, or conceal Its inferior quality, if at the time of delivering such article or drug...
Page 55 - An article shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this act...
Page 57 - An Act defining butter, also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, and exportation of oleomargarine," approved August second, eighteen hundred and eighty- six.
Page 52 - District so that any part thereof is within less than four feet of the ordinary level of the ground, unless it contains the body of a child under twelve years of age, when it shall not be less than three feet below that level.
Page 56 - Every person offering or exposing for sale, or delivering to a purchaser any drug or article of food included in the provisions of this act shall furnish to any...
Page 55 - Whoever by himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person...
Page 56 - For the purposes of this chapter 'butter' shall be understood to mean the food product usually known as butter, and which is made exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with or without common salt, and with or without additional coloring matter, and containing not less than 80 per centum by weight of milk fat, all tolerances having been allowed for.
Page 55 - Pharmacopoeia, but which is found in some other pharmacopoeia or other standard work on materia medica, it differs materially from the standard of strength, quality, or purity laid down in such work.
Page 56 - If any substance or substances have been mixed with it, so as to lower or depreciate, or injuriously affect its quality, strength, or purity...
Page 55 - If the defendant in any prosecution under this Act prove to the satisfaction of the justices or court that he had purchased the article in question as the same in nature, substance, and quality as that demanded of him by the prosecutor, and with a written warranty to that effect...

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