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present within sixty days from the passage of this Act a diploma from a reputable Dental College.

Section 842 P. L. From and after sixty days subsequent to the passage of this Act the said Board shall issue a certificate of qualification to any person who shall present a diploma from a reputable Dental College, or who shall pass a creditable examination before the Board.

Section 843 P. L. Any person or persons receiving certificates from said Board shall present said certificates to the Treasurer who shall record the same in a book kept for such purpose.

S. L. 1892.
Ch. 72.

S. L. 1892. Ch. 72. Amended by Terr. Act.

PENALTY FOR VIOLATING THE STATUTE.

Section 844 P. L. Any person or persons who shall violate the provisions of this Act shall upon conviction thereof be liable to a penalty of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. Provided, that nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to prevent the extraction of teeth under circumstances of necessity.

S. L. 1892.
Ch. 72.

LICENSES TO STEAM LAUNDRIES.

Section 1. The Treasurer, with the approval of the Governor may issue to any person, partnership or corporation, a license to erect, maintain and operate a steam laundry within the District of Kona, Island of Oahu, upon such conditions as to location and otherwise as shall be set forth in the license.

Section 2. Said license shall not be issued except upon the certificate of the Board of Health, setting forth that an agent of said Board has examined the location at which it is proposed to operate said steam laundry, and that the same is suitable for the purpose.

Section 3. The annual fee for said license shall be Fifty Dollars.

Session Laws

of 1898. Act 33 Amended by Terr. Act.

Section 4. Said steam laundries shall be subject to such regulations as to sanitation as may be prescribed from time to time by the Board of Health.

Session Laws of 1898. Act 34 Amended by Terr. Act.

THE ADULTERATION OF FOODS AND DRUGS.

Section 1. No person shall within the Territory of Hawaii manufacture, offer for sale, or sell any drug or article of food which is adulterated within the meaning of this Act.

Section 2. The term "drug" as used in this Act shall include all drugs, medicine, or medicinal preparations for internal or external use, antiseptics, antiseptic dressings, disinfectants and cosmetics. The term "food," as used herein, shall include all articles used for food or drink by man, whether simple, mixed or compound.

Section 3. An article shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this Act:

(a) In the case of drugs:

(1) If, when sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down therein; (2) if, when sold under or by a name not recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, but which is found in some other Pharmaco poeia, or some other standard work on materia medica, it differs materially from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down in such work; (3) if, its strength, quality or purity falls below the professed standard under which it is sold; (4) if it contain any substance inimical or dangerous to life without the same being duly stated on the label or wrapper. (b) In the case of food:

(1) If any substance or substances have been mixed with it, so as to lower or depreciate, or injuriously affect its quality, strength or purity; (2) If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted, wholly or in part, for it; (3) If any valuable or necessary constituent or ingredient has been wholly or in part abstracted from it; (4) If

ACT 50.

An Act to Provide Against the
Adulteration of Food
and Drugs.

Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii:

SECTION 1. That no person shall within the Territory of Hawaii manufacture, offer for sale, keep for sale or sell, any drug or article of food which is adulterated within the meaning of this Act.

SECTION 2. The term "drug" as used in this Act shall include all drugs, medicines or medical preparations for external or internal use, antiseptics, antiseptic dressings, disinfectants and cosmetics. The term "food" as used herein shall include all articles used for food or drink by man, whether simple, mixed or compound.

SECTION 3. An article shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this Act:

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(1) If, when manufactured, sold, offered for sale or kept for sale, under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopœia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down therein; (2) If, when manufactured, "sold, offered for sale or kept for sale, under or by a name not recog. nized in the United States Pharmacopœia, but which is found in some other Pharmacopoeia, or other standard work on maieria medica, it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down in such work; (3) If its strength, quality or purity falls below the professed standard under which it is

sold; (4) If it contains any substance inimical or dangerous to life, without the same being duly stated on the label or wrapper.

(b) In the case of food:

(1) If any substance or substances have been mixed with it so as to lower or depreciate or injuriously affect its quality, strength or purity; (2) If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it; (3) If any valuable or necessary constituent or ingredient has been wholly or in part abstracted from it; (4) If it is an imitation of, or is manufactured, sold, kept for sale or offered for sale under the name of another article; (5) If it consists wholly or in part of a diseased, decomposed, putrid, infected, tainted or rotten animal or vegetable substance, whether manufactured or not; (6) In the case of milk, if it is the produce of a diseased animal, or if it contains less than eleven and a half per centum total solids or two and a half per centum of butter fat, or if it contains any preservative or antiseptic; (7) If it is colored, coated, polished or powdered whereby damage or inferiority is concealed, or if by any means it is made to appear better or of greater value than it really is; (8) If it contains any added substance or ingredient which is poisonous or injurious to health, or any deleterious substance not a necessary ingredient in its manufacture; Provided that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to mixtures or compounds recognized as ordinary articles of food, if the same be distinctly labeled as mixtures or compounds, and are not injurious to health, and contain no ingredient not necessary to the preparation of a genuine article of such mixtures or compounds, and from which no necessary ingredient in its preparation is eliminated.

SECTION 4. If any person manufacturing, keeping for sale. offering for sale or exhibiting for sale any drug or article of food included in the provisions of this Act, shall refuse to furnish the duly appointed food commissioner, upon demand, either personal or in writing, a sample sufficient for the analysis of such drug or article of food which is in his possession, the food commissioner tendering the market price therefor, such refusal shall be prima facie evidence that such drug or article of food so manufactured, kept for sale, offered for sale or exhibited for sale is adulterated within the meaning of this Act.

SECTION 5. To carry out the provisions of this Act, the Board of Health shall appoint a duly qualified Food Commissioner or Analyst, who shall receive such salary as the Legisla

ture shall from time to time appropriate, and who shall furnish good and sufficient bonds of not less than two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for the proper and unprejudiced performance of his duties, and who shall be provided by the Board of Health with the necessary apparatus, together with a proper office and laboratory for work.

SECTION 6. It shall be the duty of the Food Commissioner to carefully inquire into the quality of the several articles which are foods, drugs or the necessary constituents of foods or drugs, manufactured or kept for sale, or sold or exposed for sale within the Territory of Hawaii; and he may in a lawful manner procure samples thereof, submit the same to careful examination, and report the result of such analysis of all or any of such drugs, food and drink products or dairy products as are adulterated, impure or unwholesome, in contravention of the laws of the Territory of Hawaii to the Board of Health; and it shall be the duty of the Food Commissioner to make complaint with the necessary evidence through the proper authorities, against such manufacturer or vendor.

SECTION 7. The Food Commissioner shall have power in the performance of his duties, to enter into any creamery, factory, store, salesroom, storageroom, drug store or laboratory, or any place where he has reason to believe food or drink are made, prepared, sold or offered for sale, and to open any cask, tub, bottle, case or package containing or supposed to contain any article of food or drink and examine or cause to be examined the contents thereof.

SECTION 8. The Food Commissioner shall make a monthly report in writing to the President of the Board of Health containing the results of inspection and analysis in detail, and upon request of said Board he shall furnish for publication a popular explanation of the same covering any month or period, together with any such other information as may come to him in his official capacity relating to the adulteration of drugs and food and drink products, so far as the same may be deemed by the said Board of Health to be of benefit and advantage to the public.

SECTION 9. The Food Commissioner shall investigate complaints on the information of any person who shall lay before him satisfactory evidence of the same.

SECTION 10. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding two hundred, nor less than ten dollars,

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