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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17ти SEPTEMBER,

1898.

(c) any person at present in practice as a Chemist and Druggist who shall have previously proved to the satisfaction of the Governor that he is competent to dispense poisons; or (d) a medical practitioner duly registered under the Medical Registration Ordinances in force for the time being in this Colony, or entitled to the benefit of section 20 of Ordinance 6 of 1884 :

provided that, if the medicine contain a poison included in either Part of the List, the ingredients of the medicine together with the name of the person to whom it is sold or delivered, be entered in a book kept for that purpose (" Prescription-book "), and that the name and address of the seller be attached to the medicine.

7. These bye-laws shall come into force one calendar month from the date on which they are approved by the Legislative Council.

NOTE---By section 83 of Ordinance 24 of 1887, any person who shall contravene any provision of any of the above bye-laws shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars or, in default of payment, imprisonment not exceeding three months.

Made by the Sanitary Board this 25th day of August, 1898.

Approved by the Legislative Council this 12th day of September, 1898.

FRANCIS W. CLARK, Acting Secretary.

J. G. T. BUCKLE, Clerk of Councils.

LIST OF POISONS WITHIN THE MEANING OF THESE BYE-LAWS.

Not to be sold unless the purchaser is known to, or is intro-

duced by, some person known to, the seller;

Entry to be made in

6.

aliy

Poison-book"

of

1. Date of Sale:

2. Name and address of purchaser :

3. Name and quantity of article ; 4. Purpose for which it is wanted;

Attested by signature ;

Must be labelled with

1. Name of article.

2. The word "Poison."

and

8. Name and address of seller.

Part I.

Arsenic, and its preparations (see also special regulations

under bye-law 3 of these bye-laws).

Aconite, and its preparations;

Alkaloids.—All poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their

salts:

Atropine, and its preparations ; Cantharides;

Corrosive Sublimate;

Cyanide of Potassium, and all metallic cyanides and their

preparations:

Emetic Tartar;

Ergot of Rye, and its preparations;

Prussic Acid, and its preparations ;

Savin, and its oil;

Strychnine, and its preparations;

Vermin Killers, if preparations of poisons the preparations

of which are in Part I. of this schedule.

Datura Alba, and its preparations ;

Gelsemium Elegans, and its preparations; Orpiment.

Part II.

Must be labelled with

1. Name of article.

2. The word “Poison.”

3. Name and address of seller.

Almonds, Essential Oil of (unless deprived of Prussie

Acid);

Belladonna, and its preparations :

Cantharides, Tincture and all vesicating liquid preparations

of:

Carbolic Acid;

Chloroform;

Chloral Hydrate, and its preparations ;

Corrosive Sublimote, preparations of;

Morphia, preparations of ;

Nux Vomien, and its preparations :

(andee Yeid:

Precipitate, Red (Red Oxide of Merenry);

Precipitate, White (Ammoniated Mercury);

Vermin Killers (see Part I.) compounds containing “ Poi-

sons prepared for the destruction of vermin, if not subject to the provisions of Part I. are in Part II.