Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-12-31


act, shall be imprisoned not exceeding
one year, or fined not more than foui
hundred dollars.
Sec 8. Every person offering or ex-
posing for sale any drug or article OF
food within tho meaning OF this act
shall furnish to any member OF the
state board Of health, or any local health
officer. who shall apply to him for the
same and tender him its value in money
a sample sufficient for the purpose OF the
analysis OF such drug or article of food
Sec. 9. ANY person who has reason to
doubt the purity or genulneness Of any
article Of food which he has purchased,
may send at his own expense sealed
sample of 1t to the laboratory of hygiene
Of the state board OF health for inspec.
ton. II upon examination the article
/ appears to be adulterated, the board may
obtain certified sample OF 1t, and should
this sample prove to be adulterated, the
board shall begin proceedings at once
against the vendor.
Sec. l. Whoever binders, obstructs. or
in any way interferes with any member
of the state board of health or any local
health officer in the performance OF his
duties under this act. shall be fined not
more than fifty dollars for the first Of
Tense. and for each subsequent offensc
shall be fined one hundred dollars.
Sec. S, Before commencing the analysis
of sample, the analyst shall reserve
portion, which shall be sealed; and in
case Of complaint or Indictment part
of the reserved portion Of the sample
alleged to be adulterated shall, upon APP
plication be delivered to the defendant
or his attorney, and part to the secre-
tary of the state board Of health.
Sec. Q. Whoever adulterates, for the
purpose OF sale, any liquor used or in
tended for drink. with cocculus indicus,
vitriol grains Of paradise, opium, alum,
capsicun. copperas, laurel-water, log
wood, Brazil wood, cochineal sugar of
lead, or any other substance which Is
poisonous or injurious to health, or
knowingly sells any such liquor SO a.
dulterated. shall be imprisoned not ex-
ceeding one year, or be fined not more
than one thousand dollars.
Sec. ~. Whoever kills, or causes to
be killed, for the purpose of sale for
food, a calf less than four weeks old, or
knowingly sells. or has in possession with
intent to sell. for food, the meat of any
such calf, shall be imprisoned not ex-
ceeding thirty days, or fined not more
than fifty dollars. or both.
Sec. II. The health officer OF any city.
town or village may inspect the carcasses
OF all slaughtered animals intended for
food for men, and all meat, fish,
vegetables, produce, fruit or provisions
OF any kind found in their cities or
towns. and for such purposes may enter
any building, enclosure or other place in
which such carcasses or articles are
stored, kept or exposed for sale. IT, on
such inspection, 1t is found that such
carcasses or articles are designed for
food for man and are tainted, diseased,
corrupted decayed, unwholesome, or
from any cause, unfit for food, the board
of health shall seize the same and cause
it or them to be destroyed forthwith, or
disposed of otherwise than for food. The |
powers conferred in this section upon
local health officers, are conferred upon
any member Of the state board Of health
to perform the same acts in any part of |
the state.
Sec r. Any meat 7unwholesome pro-
visions or articles sold. kept or offered |
for sale for food or drink for human be-
ings, and any articles adulterated in vio-
lation of any of the preceding sections,
shall be deemed public nuisance and
destroyed.
Sec 13. Every apothecary. druggist, or
other person who sells any arsenic, cor
rosive suhlimate, nux vomica, strychnine
opium, cocaine, caTbolic acid
or prussia acid, or it's salts, shall make
a record Of such sale in a book kept for
that purpose, specifying the kind and
quantity of the article sold, and the time
when, and the name of the person to
whom such sale Is made. which record
shall be open to all health officers,
members Of the state board Of health and
state officials who may wish to examine
the same.
Sec. Il. If a person violates the pro-
visions of the preceding section, he shall
be fined not more than one hundred dol
ars.
Sec. Is. The two preceding sections
shall not apply to legally qualified prac-
litioners Of medicine, nor to their pre-
scriptions or recipes to their patients
Sec. 16. Any corporation, person, firm
'r agent who shall sell or offer for sale
)r exchange any woven fabric or paper
arsenic in any form, or any
article of dress or of household use COM
posed wholly or in part of such woven
'abric or paper, or any other article of
lress containing arsenic, shall, upon con-
'iction thereof, be fined not exceeding
one hundred dollars: provided, however,
that this section shall not apply to dress