Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-07

| the stock of antitoxin at the various
| local stations are made up of goods on
which the guarantee has not expired.
"The antitoxin will be furnished to
LEGAL boards of health at the rate of
40c per 1000 units and zoe additional
for each syringe in which the antitoxin
is contained. The local agents, whether
druggists or secretaries or chairmen of
local boards of health, will receive
commission of 10 per cent for handling
the antitoxin and making the records
which may be necessary to a proper
distribution.
"The antitoxin will come to local
agents in packages of 1000, 2.60o and
5000 units.
please remember that the State
Board of Health does not keep anti
toxin on hand. 1t will all come direct
from the producers. But the State
Board of Health would be glad to re-
ceive any suggestions compatible with
the provisions of the law and the
agreement between it and the Lederle
Co, in regard to what may be thought
best and most convenient to the vari-
Gus local boards and their own sur
rounding town.
"AntitoXin for the use of INDECENT
persons should be furnished only on the
application of the physician in at
tendance on the person on whom it is
to be used. The local agent in charge
of the antitoXin should not be expected
to deliver it at his own expense. A
physician wishing it should be required
| to cal for it in person at the local
a ion, In hnrlZnI &
senger. In short prescription for
antitoxin should be brought to the
agent. the same as a prescription for
any drug or appliance.
I'm order that accurate accounts may
be kept of all antitoXin distributed, and
| in order also that the local agent may
| be in position to render proper state
| ment of all antitoxin passing through
his hands, the physician obtaining an
titoxin should be required to receipt
for it on the plank form for receipt
which comes wrapped around each
package. This requirement may be
waived when it is not practicable for
the physician to come in person to the
local station, but the antitOxin should
not be delivered then except on the
| written order of the physician. This
order should not be considered q receipt
for the antitoxin, and the agent should
require the physician who orders 1t to
receipt for the same on the blank form
for receipt which accompanies each
package of antitoxn.
"In an emergency, the physician not
being near the station and not being In
a position to send a messenger, the To-
= l,o lie nntlfGXln
the patients house on, we will say, q
telephone order from the physician,
should send it at the expense of the
physician or patient, but he shouia
send It only on condition that the ply
scian agrees to return to the station
properly filed in and signed. the blank
form for receipt accompanying the
package of anttoXin.
THE blank form Cor receipt around
each package of antitcXin is in tripll-
cate with carbon papers between
When signed one of these receipts
SHOULD be retained by the local agent;
one should be sent - the local agent oil
the Lederle antitoXin laboratories and
the third must be forwa to the
local agent of he State Board OF
Health
I'm order that anttoxin may not be
administered by other than legally
qualified physicians. the local agent
should not fill telephone orders unless
he has satisfied himself that they have
actually been given by the physician in
attendance on the family. No atten-
ton should be paid to an order in this
wise: d. wishes to send pack
age of 5000 units of antitoxin out to
IS house" The order must be given
by the physician himself.
per order of the Board,
A. G. YOUNG, secretary .