POISON PRECAUTIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 141, 7 August 1911, Page 2

POISON PRECAUTIONS.

AN IMPORTANT BILL. The Sale of Poisons Bill introduced by the Government is an important measure. It contains two schedules of poisons subject to its provisions. Those in tiie iirst- schedule may only be sold by licensed chemists. The poisons enumerated in the second schedule may bo sold by any storekeeper who obtains a license. This latter covers the sale of poisonous substances to bo exclusively used in agriculture or horticulture or as sheep-dip or weed killers, or the alkaloids of tobacco; strychnine preparations for the destruction of birds and rabbits, sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, ammonium sulphoeyanide, and preparations thereof specially prepared for photographic use, nitric acid,, mercuric iodide preparations for photography, liquid preparations of carbolic acid and its hoiiiologuds for use as sheep wash, or for any agricultural or disinfecting purpose', and oxalate of potassium, neutral. A solo of poisons board is to be created for the purpose of administering the Act. It will comprise the registrar of poisons, the Dominion analyst, the president of the Pharmacy Board, and a person nominated by the Governor as representative of' the storekeepers. No poison mentioned in the first schedule shall ho sold to any person under the ago of eighteen years, arsenic and strychnine must lie coloured black and red respectively before sale, and no person shall sell morphia- or cocaine or their salts or preparations suitable for hypodermic injection, except when prescribed by a registered medical practitioner, Every person in charge of poisons uho leaves them in an accessible place without hearing a conspicuous label “Poison,” is liable to a line not exceeding £2O.