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Sale of Food and Drugs Bill.
A Bill to make further provision for securing the purity of Articles
of Food and preventing the misdescription thereof.
Merchandise Marks Bill.
A Bill to amend the Law as to Trade Marks and Trade Descriptions.
Medical Prescriptions Bill (h.l.).
A Bill intituled an Act to restrict the undue use of certain Medical
Prescriptions.
The object of this Bill is to prevent medical prescriptions which
contain scheduled poisons from being used as a mean* of obtaining an
undue quantity of the medicine prescribed. At present it is not an
uncommon practice for a patient who his received a prescription for his
or her doctor to use the prescription again and again without further
medical authority. It is obvious that this practice, in some cases at
least, leads to abuses. If a doctor see3 a patient and prescribes a certain
quantity of a certain medicine it by no means follows that the doctor
intends the patient to use that medicine repeatedly or indiscriminately.
The Bill proposes, therefore, that where a medicine prescribed by a doctor
contains a scheduled poison the prescription is net to be dispensed more
than once unless the doctor gives directions either specifying the number
of times it may be dispensed and supplied to the patient or stating that it
may bs supplied to him or her as often or in such quantities as is desired.
RAG FLOCK ACT.
Nine samples of Rag Flock were procured during the year and in two
instances were found not to conform to the Regulations. Letters were
sent to the persons concerned.
INSPECTION OF FOOD AND EXAMINATION OF
UNSOUND FOOD AT WHARVES, Etc.
Examination of Food Stuffs at Wharves, etc.
With respect to the examination of food stuffs see Sanitary Inspectors'
reports, pages 216-251.