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According to this law, the Government has the right to procure 
and to sell any salt of quinine, which may be designated by the Board 
of Health. The quinine will be ordered through the Ministry of 
Finance on the basis of tenders (except if it is purchased from a 
foreign Government) on terms to be arranged on each occasion by 
the Board of Health. The limit for each order is fixed at two years. 
The sale of quinine will be effected through the Chemical 
Laboratory of the Ministry of Finance, the Public Treasury, the Post 
and Telegraph Office, the Public School Teachers and by other public 
Offices, in virtue of a Royal decree. 
The State will sell quinine at cost price, and a reasonable profit 
will be allowed to retailers. In the case of the sulphate and 
bisulphate of quinine, the law fixes the price per gramme for retail 
sale at a maximum of lO lepta. The prices of other salts will be 
fixed by Royal decree as occasion arises. 
This law does not prohibit the free import and sale of quinine, 
but quinine so imported will be chemically analysed before its entry 
into the country. 
Penalties are appointed for the sale of State or other quinine at 
a higher price than that fixed, for adulteration of or the sale of 
adulterated quinine, or for smuggling quinine into the country, as well 
as for selling the article under weight. 
The law further obliges those denies which suffer severely from 
malaria to enter in their budget an amount sufficient for the purchase 
of State quinine for the free supply to the indigent. 
The above is a succinct account of the action of the League during 
the past year. As regards the future, the first item in the programme 
is the resumption of the campaign at Marathon for a series of years, 
^d, subsequently, by the convocation of more doctors at the capital, 
^d by means of lectures in other towns of the Kingdom, to con¬ 
tribute to the dissemination of the latest ideas regarding the pre¬ 
vention of malaria, and, to sum up, by means of suitable action with 
the Government and the municipalities together with the large landed 
proprietors and the public in general, to aim at the application of 
tneasures for the drainage of the large number of large and small 
Marshes which cover our country. 
This difficult work, however, imperatively calls for the co-operation 
of philanthropy. 
