Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-16
ANNUAL REPOBTs
Ofthe Board or Health and Board OF
Pharmacy.


Pharmacy.
We give this morning an abstract Of the
report of the State Board of Health and also
of the Board of Pharmacy, both bodies be-
ing creations of the last Legislature. They
have each been eminently successful in
carrying out the objects.of their founders,
and each has had beneficial effect upon
the two systems respectively.
The report of Dr. Reeves, Secretary and
executive officer of the Board Of Health, is
a short, concise and able document, and adj
mirably covers the ground. 1t reciteS the
| object and effects of the establishment OF
| the Board, briefly and Complementary,
| and demonstrates some changes and I'M
| pruyemcnts that could yet be made. DR..
Reeves is enthusiastic over the gratifying
| success of the law of which he was the
! author, and finisher and points with PRIDE
! TO the numerous testimonials that he mas
received from all sources on the subject,
! among them some of the foremost SANTA
riOns of the country.
This law has had the effect of purifying
! the practice Of medicine in this State, ex-
| polling quacks and empires, and inducing
I young men to prepare themselves IN a le-
: Ultimate way for the duties of their pro-
! fession, who otherwise would have resort
! ed TO the wildcat methods heretofore in
use with reference to the practice OF med
/ icine. Boards of Health of q local nature
have been established in nearly every
county. and the most satisfactory results
are expected.
Meetings for the examination and regis
tration of physicians were held at Grafton,
Buckannon. Wheeling, Parkersburg, Moore
field, Charleston and the White sulphur
Springs, which were very convenient Tor
all and we'll attended.
In regard to the Board OF Pharmacy,
Secretary Booking makes an equally salts
factory report, and We quote literally from
il. as will be seen below.
THE MEDICAL REPORT.
The following is the list OF
REGISTRATIONS AND EXAMINATIONS.
In the First Congressional District
To Graduates in medicine and surgery.........lp
Ten-year
Applicants I'D
In the Second Congressional District
To Graduates in medicine and Surgery.........lo
Ten-year w
Applicants examined y
In the Third Congressional District
To Graduates in medicine and surgery .........ll6
Tcn-ycar prnctltl0ncIS......
Applicant, ~
Making total Of licensed practitioners of
medicine and surgery in the State OF 49,
The sum of $1,000 was appropriated
for the support of the Board, provided
that sum was paid into the State treasury
from fees for examinations and licenses 10
''itinerant physicians the only source OF
revenue under the law. From the above
figures it is seen that ~ examination GER
! tiiicates have been issued, for which the
Board received 1910, to which add $50 re-
ccvcd for licenses from itinerant phySi-
clans in the First Cong. District, making the
| total revenue 81 .090 an amount inadequate
to the necessities of the board. Under the
influence CT the law quite number OF for
mer practitioners are attending lectures at
medical colleges and will return home next
! spring with the diplomas for egiStration,
! and thus the esprit du corps of the profess
/ sion is being greatly improved.
Among the diplomas received for veriti-
cation were some OF a spurious character,
which had been directly bought or obtained
upon a nominal examination. These, OF
course. the Board rejected. The appoint
ment of local boards of health in the vari-
Gus counties of the State is alSe reported,
and ''soOn the entire machinery OF the law
will be in operation
The Druggists.
Through the kindness of Edmund Book
ing we are enabled to give the following
abstract OF the report Of the Board OF Phar-
macy:
The report after reciting the fact of the
DASStlSe OF tie dCl tue SldlCo
that an organization was effected in May
last BY the election of J. l.. W. Baker of
Martinsburg as President for the term of
one year, Ed. l.. BOggs, of Charleston, Vice
President for the term of two years, and
Edmund Booking, of Wheeling as Secre-
tary for the term OF three years.
The report as prepared by
Secretary Backing, of this city, shows that
there are three hundred and fourteen reg
iStered pharmacies in the State, scattered
through the Congressional districts as fol-
lows: First, one hundred and twenty-five;
Second, ninety; third, Seyenty-two. The
counties of Logan, Mcdowell, Pendleton,
PUCahOntas, Wayne and Wyoming are SO
far unreprCsentCd in the register.
The other counties vary in their
representation about in the ratio of
their population. One hundred and
oishtoon towns and cities have druggists
who are registered pharmacists large
proportion of the number were registered
BY virtue of the provision of the act allow
ing all those engaged in the business
at the passage of the act, To register; that
is without examination Of those
who were examined about 65 per
cent passed. The report also shows
that there are but few of the druggists in
the State doing business in violation of the
law. In regard to the handling OF deadly
pOlSOnS DS country StOFekeeperS anu SELL
ing them from the same vessels in which
articles of food are sold the report recon-
mendS an amendment to the law prohibit
ing such sales.
In regard to the sale of liquor by drug
gists for other than medicinal purposes, the
secretary reports that all such cases have
been reported to the prosecuting attorney
of the county in which each infraction
took place.
1t has been found that the revenues ariS-
ing from examinations. etc, are not Sutfi-
cient to cover the expenses incident to the
perfect operation of the law. and it recon-
mends small appropriation by the State
or to authorize the payment OF half OF the
fines imposed for violation of the law to
the Board of Pharmacy for these purposes.
The report concludes by stating that there
are twenty-four States in which the phar-
macy law is in use. The necessities OF the
times demand that the public he protected