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CHAPTER XIV, 
Food Adulteration. 
Adulteration of Foods Acts have been passed in only one or two 
provinces, but these Acts are applicable to municipal areas, only if the 
municipal councils concerned agree to their adoption. We believe that 
such Acts should bein force in every province and that local Governments 
should endeavour to make their provisions more widely applicable. 
At present the lack of adequate standards of purity make it only too 
easy for merchants to sell adulterated food supplies. Milk, ghz and 
butter, all valuable foods when pure, are thus abused to an incredible 
extent, and the ordinary purchaser is left unprotected. Without legis- 
lation for the fixing of standards it is almost impossible to obtain a con- 
viction for adulteration, and severe penalties should be laid down for 
offences of this nature. In addition a clause regulating the importation 
and sale of condensed skimmed milk, large quantities of which are sold 
to working-class mothers as food fit for infants. should if possible be 
incorporated in them. 
Industrial Hygiene. 
Although individual research workers have been able to throw 
gleams of light on certain aspects of disease, there remain unexplored 
wide regions, particularly in the industrial field. In the more industria- 
lised provinces Public Health Departments should be strengthened to deal 
with industrial hygiene and industrial disease. At least one of the 
Assistant Directors of Public Health should have a special knowledge of 
these subjects and be capable of advising industrial employers on matters 
affecting the health of their workers and of carrying out special investi- 
gations in the industrial field. Little work has so far been done in India 
in this branch of preventive medicine, and we heard with regret that the 
one attempt made to organise such a branch in the Bengal Public Health 
Department was abandoned within six months on account of retrench- 
ment. In this connection the Public Health Commissioner with the 
Government of India has emphasised the necessity for the creation of 
a central bureau or a division of industrial hygiene in any development 
of the central health organisation of the future. 
Industrial Disease. 
Although the majority of witnesses assured us that industrial 
disease was seldom brought to their notice, we are satisfied that further 
investigation is necessary. We anticipate that here, as in other coun- 
tries, when skilled observers are set to work, the usual diseases associated 
with industry will be found to exist, their non-detection possibly 
being due to the fact that they are either never seen by a medical man or, 
if seen, pass unrecognised and undetected. It is difficult to believe, for 
instance, that cases of anthrax never occur among workers in leather, 
hides and skins when the anthrax bacillus has not infrequently been found 
in tanneries and in parcels of hides prepared for export. In another chap- 
ter we suggest additions to the list of industrial diseases scheduled