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commented on the work of those who went out to the SouthAfrican war and achieved such great successes. Mr. A. W.Mayo Robson and Mr. W. Arbuthnot Lane having also

responded, Mr. R. G. Webster proposed the toast ofOurselves," which was acknowledged by the chairman.

SUPERANNUATION GRANT.-The Bideford (Devon)board of guardians has granted a superannuation allowanceof £46 per annum to Mr. H. Miller, formerly medical officerof the Hartland district.

MEDICAL MAGISTRATE.-Mr. W. B. Taylor,M.R.C S. Eng., L.SA., has been placed on the Commissionof the Peace for the county of London.

Parliamentary Intelligence.NOTES ON CURRENT TOPICS.

Defeat of the Pitre Beer Bill.THE defeat of the Pure Beer Bill on its second reading in the House

of Commons on Friday, March 16th, was not unexpected. A statementby Mr. McKENNA, the Secretary to the Treasury, proved sufficient tokill it. In 192 a similar Bill was introduced. It proposed that itsclauses should be enforced by the Inland Revenue officials, but SirMICHAEL HicKs-BEACH, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, showedthat it was absolutely impossible for those officers to undertake the

duty. The promoters of this session’s Bill got over that difficulty byleaving out all the proposals AN hich would have provided for carrsingit out, " with the result," said Mr. MCkENNA, " that unless the Billenforced itself it would not be enforced at all." From a medical pointof view the discussion contained little of interest.

’ HOUSE OF LORDS.

TUESDAY, MARCH 20TH.

Poisons and Pharmacy Bill.The Earl of OREWE moved the second reading of the Poisons and

Pharmacy Bill. He said he was glad to be able to state that in itsmain points the m easure was not of a controversial character. Had thelate Government remained in office he believed that the Marquis ofLondonderry would in all probability have introduced a similar.if not precisely the same, Bill. As it was the outcome of considerablediscussion outside he thought it right to explain the details. The firstclause of the Bill dealt with the schedule of poisons. At present thesale of poisons was governed by the Pharmacy Act of 1868 and itsschedule, but as tiles had advanced and experience had been gainedadditions required to be made to the schedule. These and one or twoother proposed additions were incorporated in the Bill. Clause 2 dealtwith the sale of poisonous substances for agricultural and horticulturalpurposes. For some time past there had been a strong demand on thepart of agriculturists and horticulturists for some extension in the saleof poisonous substances used in their businesses. It was now proposedthat a local authority should have power to give licences to traders

who were not chemists to sell those important agricultural articles.It was not, however, intended in any way to supersede the ordinarybusiness of the chemist. It was only in districts where there wereno chemists’ shops that, as a rule, the power would be given. Themost important article to which this provision related was sheep-dip which was of a very poisonous nature. The most popularand generally used sheep-dip contained a very large amountof arsenic and a large sheep farmer would probably use

several hundredweights of arsenic in the course of a year.It had been found, especially in remote districts of Scotland, thatsheep farmers had sustained no small inconvenience by having to sendto a great distance to secure the raw material of sheep dips and it washoped that by givirg licences to qualified tradesmen who were notchemists to sell this the convenience of sheep farmers would be addedto. There was also a trade in various poisons for the destruction offungus enemies of crops and plants. He believed that some objectionhad been raised to including arsenic in the substances that could be sosold. But arsenic possessed the dignity of having an Act of Parliamentall to itself by which its sale was regu’ated. It had to be sold in aparticular way so that it could be distinguished from other sub-stances. The draft regulations which it was proposed to m-keby Order in Council nier this clause were already preparedand he proposed to lay them on the table at an early date.The third clause dealt with a matter which was of interest to thePharmaceutical Society and was one which would protect the public.Its effect was that any person who carried on the business of a chemistin more than one shop, which he did not look after himself, he being,of course, a registered chemist, must appoint in each case a registeredchemist to look after the business. It was obvious to everybody thatthe dispensing of drugs and the general management of the businessof a chemist should be conducted by a thoroughly qualified person.Clause 4 dealt with a question which had given rise to a considerableamount of controversy. Chemists’ shops were very largely carried onby companies. A demand at one time was made, which it was

,quite impossible to meet, that everybody ha ing an interest insuch a company should of necessity be a qualitied chemist. It wasof no interest to the public to know how a chemist’s shop was financedbut it was of the greatest possible interest to know how it wasmanaged This clause required that where chemists’shops were carriedon by a company there must be bond-file management by a qualifiedperson whose name should be conspicuousJy placed in the shop. Inorder to prevent any infringement of this provision further words pro-posed to enact that any breach of the regulation should he v’s ted not

only on the unquallned person who managed the shop but on thecompany itself. The Government did not want to interfere in anyway with the carrying on of thooe shops He telieved that they didsupply a want. It was said that if those companies were inter-fered with the poor would not be able to obtain a cheap supply ofdrugs. How far cheap drugs were a benefit to the poor or anybodyelse might be a matter of opinion. He did not know that access to thevery cheap drugs might be an unmixed blessing to the poor, but if theywanted them it was petfeet,ly right that they should be abe to have-them and it was not intended to interfere with the provision of thoseshops. Clause 5 gave certain l,owers to the Pharmaceutical Society to,carry out examination and contained a useful provision enabling theSociety to recognise colonial diplomas without further examination inthis country. The sixth clause made certain changes in regard to thesale of the more important and best-known mineral acids whichwere very largely used in many branches of commerce. Precautions-were to be taken of a well-known kind. relating to the markingand labeling of the bottle or vessel in which the poisons were con-

tained. The last clause applied the Act to Ireland, but he thought itwould be more convenient to discu’s this proposal at a later stage.The Earl bf DONOUGHMORE said he had no reason to object to the

introduction of this measure, but at a later stage he would ask theirlordships to discuss the proposal to extend the Act to Ireland. Theyhad already a system in Ireland which he believed carried out the-objects which prompted the Government to bring in the present Bill.They in Ireland did not therefore think the Bill necessary. He was-speaking after consultation with the Pharmaceutical Society ofIreland and in committee he would move that the Bill do not applyto Ireland. Ile was authorised to say on behalf of the Pharma-ceutical Society, which was noc called to give evidence before the-Departmental Committee, that it would be very glad to state its pointof view to the Government.Lord MONKSWELL wished to say that the Pharmaceutical Society of.

Great Er,tain welcomed many of the provisions of the Bill and regardedit as a gco t Bill. A Bill promoted ty the Society had been presented inthe other House and to some extent it was on all fours with this one, butthe Society desired that amendments should be made on Clause 4.making it a little more stringent. He ventured to hope on behalf of theSociety that the Government would consult the President before theBill went to committee.

he Marquis of LONDONDERRY agreed with the Earl of CBEWEthat this bill was non-controversial. They were all anxious thatpoisonous drugs should be sold with the maximum of convenienceand with the minimum of danger and risk. He hoped that, as LordDonoughmore had suggested, the various bodies interested would beconsulted before the Bill went to committee. There was a feeling inIreland that that country should not be included. Ireland was treatedby the Bill of 1890. which was considered to have been of enormousadvantage. Otherwise he believed the Bill would be for the generalgood.The Earl of HALSBURY thought the whole question was more difficult

and complex than appeared on the face of this Bill. It was perfectlycertain that a very large number of poisons could be sold. Thesesometimes could not be got in a chemist’s shop. If they went toa dry salter’s shop they would get any amount of poisons andno precaution whatever existed. The law had left this matter abso-lutely without protection, because the articles were not sold in thecharacter of medicines but under common and popular names. It wasa question which would have to be dealt with at more length and withmore recision than was done in the Bill now before them. He, how-ever, did not wish to defeat the objects of the Bill and he wouldcertainly support it.The Earl of CRFWF, in reply to the discussion, said he would be very

happy to consult with the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland and togive due weight to any representations it might make. He could alsoassure Lord Monkswell that he would have pleasure in talking overthe provisions of the Bill with representatives of the PharmaceuticalSociety of Great Britain and other gentlemen who wished to see himon the subject. With reference to what fell from the Earl of Halsbury,he was personally in general agreement with him in the belief that allmeasures of this kind were of a partial character as regards the possibledanger to the public in the sale of deleterious articles. That was a verylarge question indeed and hardly came under the head of a Poisonsand Pharmacy Bill in the technical sense. Although it was v ell worthyof consideration whether a larger measure might be brought in it washardly possible to attempt to include further provisions in the presentBill.The motion was agreed to and the Bill was read a second time.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

THURSDAY, MARCH 15TH.

The Medical Profession and the poor-law Commission.Mr. JEREMIAH MACVEAGH asked the First Lord of the Treasury

w hether it was intended to give effect to the recommendation of the-Leinster branch d the British Medical Association that the Poor-lawCommission should include a representative of the medical professionin Ireland.—Sir H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN replied : The answer is in thenegative.

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