DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



The enforcement of the pharmacy law and the control of the 

 sale of poisons is vested in the major and superintendent of police 

 and the corporation counsel of the District, while the health officer is 

 charged with the enforcement of the law prohibiting adulteration 

 and with the making of such rules as are found necessary to facilitate 

 the collection and examination of drugs. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



1. Exclusive rights of registered pharmacists defined; exceptions. It shall 

 bo unlawful for any person not licensed as a pharmacist within the meaning 

 of this Act to conduct or manage any pharmacy, drug or chemical store, 

 apothecary shop, or other place of business for the retailing, compounding, 

 or dispensing of any drugs, chemicals, or poisons, or* for the compounding of 

 physicians' prescriptions, or to keep exposed for sale, at retail, any drugs, chem- 

 icals, or poisons, except as' hereinafter provided; or, except as hereinafter pro- 

 vided, for any person not licensed as a pharmacist within the meaning of this 

 Act to compound, dispense, or sell, at retail, any drug, chemical, poison, or 

 pharmaceutical preparation upon the prescription of a physician, or otherwise, 

 or to compound physicians' prescriptions, except as an aid to and under the 

 proper supervision of a pharmacist licensed under this Act It shall be unlaw- 

 ful for any owner or manager of a pharmacy, drug store, or other place of 

 business to cause or permit any person other than a licensed pharmacist to 

 compound, dispense, or sell, at retail, any drug, medicine, or .poison, except as an 

 aid to and under the proper supervision of a licensed pharmacist: /Vor/Vrr/, That 

 nothing in this section shall be construed to interfere with any legally regis- 

 tered practitioner of medicine, dentistry, or veterinary surgery in the compound- 

 ing of his own prescriptions, or to prevent him from supplying to his patients 

 such medicines as he may deem proper; nor with the exclusively wholesale 

 business of any dealer who shall be licensed as a pharmacist, or who shall keep 

 in his employ at least one person who is so licensed, except as hereinafter pro- 

 vided; nor with the sale by others than pharmacists of poisonous substances 

 sold exclusively for use in the arts, or as insecticides, when such substances are 

 sold in unbroken packages bearing labels having plainly printed upon them the 

 name of the contents, the word " poison," when practicable the name of at least 

 one suitable antidote, and the name and address of the vendor: Provided 

 further, That such person, firm, or corporation has obtained a permit from the 

 board of supervisors in medicine and pharmacy, which grants the right and 

 privilege to make such sales, such permit to be issued for a period of three 

 years, and that each sale of such substance be registered as required of a 

 licensed pharmacist, and it shall be unlawful for any person under the age of 

 twenty-one years to sell such substances, and in no case shall the sale be made 

 to a person under eighteen years of age except upon the written order of a per- 

 son known or believed to be an adult: And provided further, That persons 



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The pure food and drug bill goes into effect January 1, 1907. 



