Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-05
PHARMACY PRACTICE
Bill Drafted to Regulate Bust
ness in District.
THE SALE OF Po1soNs
PROVISION FOR EXAMINATION
OF APPLICANTS.
Licenses to Be Issued for Limited
Period-Measure Prepared by
Board of Pharmacy.

Commissioner Macfarland has received
from the commissioners of pharmacy OF
the District the draft of proposed new
law to regulate the practice of pharmacy
and the sale of poisons In the District.
which, last July. he requested the board to
prepare Mr.. Mcfarland mas recommended
to his associates on the board of Commits
sioners. that the bill be referred to the
corporation counsel for report as to Its
form, and that 1t then be transmitted to
the chairman of the Senate and House Dis
trict committees for introduction and IA
vcrable action by Congress
The bill, it is stated. has been most care
fully prepared by the pharmacy board, In
the light of all the legislation on the sub
ject now in force elsewhere. and in con-
sultation with the representatives of the
different interests affected and with the
health officer of the District.
The board of pharmacy consists of Frank
C. Henry Phar. D., president; DR.. Francis
P. Morgan, treasurer; Henry A. Johnston,
Phar D., secretary, and Drs Murray Calf
Motter and Fred T: Hafeffnger. Commits
sioner Mcfarland believes, with the men,
bers, the measure will prove to be. if enact
ed. a model law, of great value to the Dis
trict
In submitting the draft of the bill to
Commissioner Macfarland, DR.. Motter
states that the board has endeavored. in
the preparation of the measure, to meet all
reasonable criticism. He states further
that at conference, held the 10Th of last
month, representatives of the local rhyss-
clans. of the pharmacists-both employers
and employes-and of the National College
draft of the bill submitted to the Commits
Sioners.
Provisions Of the Bill.
The proposed bill places the work of the
pharmaceutical examiners on much the
same basis as is that of the several boards
of medical examiners. The scheme already
inaugurated-a board of supervisors on
which the general public is represented by
two laymen-has proved so effective. 1t is
considered. in centralizing and harmoniZing
the work of these boards that 1t Is here ex-
tended, the board of pharmaceutical exam
liners being represented on the board of
supervisors in medicine and pharmacy by
it's president. The District health officer IS
made ex Officio secretary of the board of
supervisors. s-
The fees accruing to the board are to be
used first to pay Its expenses: second, to
pay the lay members as directed by Inc
District Commissioners. and any balance
remaining may be divided among the sew
eral examining boards In proportion 20 the
number of candidates examined by each.
The board of pharmaceutical examiners is
of at least five years experience and &C.
lively engaged in their profession. one new
appointment to be made each year. The
board organizes annually by the election,
from among its members, of president
and secretary. and meets-uuarterly for
the examination of candidates certified to
it by the board of supervsGrs
Pharmacists now registered under the
old law may be licensed under this act,
without fee or examination, provided APP
plication be made on or before December
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Applicants for examinat ton for licensure
must be at least twenty-0ne years old, of
good moral character, and not addicted to
the use of stimulantsS or narcotics; they
must have graduated from recognized
school of pharmacy, requirement. urged
with increasing force not only by the de-
mands upon modern pharmacy but by state
and national organizations of pharmacists;
they must, in addition. have had certain
practical experience, and must pass an ex-
animation by the board of pharmaceutical
examiners. Any one desiring to limit him
self to the practice of homeopathic phar-
macy must so state in his application. when
the board of supervisors will appoint a
committee of three physicians or phar-
macists, or both. adherents to the homeo-
pathic system, who shall examine such ap-