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are to give to no sick person such an order for medicine who has 

 not already been indicated to them by the district commissary or 

 priest as already enrolled as a poor person. Still, in cases of neces- 

 sity, they may order medicines to be furnished without charge, on 

 being shown the ticket held by the poor person ; in which case, how- 

 ever, the number which stands on the ticket is to be inserted in the 

 prescription. 



2d. When the sickness is ended, either by recovery or by death, 

 the district commissary is to be notified at once of the result, in 

 order that the institution may suffer no harm or detriment by the too 

 long continued enjoyment of the assistance received. 



3d. If in any case the physician or surgeon is prevented from 

 hastening to the poor person at once or is not in condition to visit 

 him, he is allowed to designate another experienced person in the 

 profession. In this last case, the prescription must on every occasion 

 be signed by the district commissary. 



4th. In case a certificate be required of them with reference to 

 the condition of health of a poor person, it is expected they will be 

 all the more conscientious in filling out the same, as otherwise the 

 alms, which are intended only for truly needy poor, might be wasted 

 to no purpose on dissolute and undeserving persons who simply 

 hate to work and wish by this means to escape, and so the really 

 deserving might suffer want. 



IV. Instructions to the Apothecaries chosen in each District of this 

 City and Suburbs to assist the Poor. 



The apothecaries are to furnish medicines without cost to the sick 

 persons in their districts and to present a monthly account of the 

 same, accompanied by the prescriptions, to the committee, reckoning 

 the prices at cost according to their voluntary and philanthropic 

 offer; but notice is hereby specially given to them that they are not 

 to receive any prescription on which the name of the sick person 

 who is enrolled among the poor does not appear, and which is not 

 signed by one of the physicians or surgeons who have been chosen 

 in their districts and who are now known publicly. If it is impos- 

 sible, however, to procure their signature, the prescription must then 

 bear the signature of the proper district commissary, as has already 

 been specified in the instructions given to the physicians, 3. 



