DOCTOR FINED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4403, 11 October 1934, Page 3

DOCTOR FINED.

BREACH OF DANGEROUS DRUGS REGULATIONS.

Auckland, October 9

“This is the first prosecution of the kind in Auckland, and there is no suggestion that any offence has been committed by defendants in respect of other persons. It will be a warning to doctors and chemists,” said Senior Detective Hall when William Henry Horton, a medical practitioner, and James Dinwoodie Jardine appeared in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. They pleaded guilty to a breach of the regulations under the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1927. Horton admitted supplying a dangerous drug on four occasions, and Jardine admitted supplying a dangerous drag which was not dispensed on a doctor’s certificate. The police said that all such prescriptions of dangerous drugs could only bo repeated three times, and the intervals at which the drug was to be taken must be stated. Horton had endorsed the prescription four times. He liadl pleaded ignorance of the section of the Act. Counsel for Horton said that he had for years been treating a man who was continually in and out of hospital. There was no suggestion of improper conduct. , The magistrate said that carelessness on the part of medical men -and chemists was the worst thing of which they could be accused. He fined defendant £l2 10/- and costs.