Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Of these 13 were wrongly dispensed as follows:—
Date. | Prescription. | Defect. |
---|---|---|
September 22nd | M. Pot. Bromid. | Deficient in Potassium Bromide, 18.3 per cent. |
Ditto | Ditto | Ditto 48.8 per cent. |
October 17th | Ditto | Ditto 83.6 per cent. |
Ditto | Ung. Flav. | Deficient in Hyd. Ox. Flav., 33 per cent. |
Ditto | M. Quinin. | Deficient in Quin. Sulph., 22 per cent. |
Ditto | Ditto | Ditto 26 per cent. |
Ditto | Pot. Bromid. | Deficient in Potassium Bromide, 35.4 per cent. |
October 18th | M. Pot. Bromid. | Ditto 14.7 per cent. |
October 24th | M. Quinin. | Deficient in Quin. Sulph., 20.5 per cent. |
Ditto | Ditto | Ditto 82 per cent. |
November 1st | Pot. Bromid. | Deficient in Potassium Bromide, 10.3 per cent. |
Ditto | Ditto | Ditto 57 per cent. |
Ditto | Ditto | Ditto 22 per cent. |
Further prescriptions were presented to the chemists who had dispensed the above-mentioned faulty medicines and dealt with formally under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts. Of these 5 were wrongly dispensed, as follows:—
Date. | Prescription. | Defect. |
---|---|---|
November 21st | M. Quinin. | Deficient in Quinine Sulphate, 72 per cent. |
Ditto | M. Pot. Bromid. | Deficient in Potassium Bromide, 14 per cent. |
Ditto | Ditto | Excess of Potassium Bromide, 44 per cent. |
Ditto | M. Quinin. | Deficient in Quinine Sulphate, 47 per cent. |
Ditto | M. Pot. Bromid. | Deficient in Potassium Bromide, 12.9 per cent. |
The results of proceedings in the latter five cases will be found in the table on the next page.