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The  committee  was  continued  and  a  motion  carried  requesting  Pro- 
fessor Beal  to  draft  a  law  regulating  the  sale  of  narcotics. 
A  resolution  regulating  the  free  distribution  of  antitoxin  and 
vaccine  virus  by  Boards  of  Health  was  read  as  follows: 
Whereas,  We,  the  members  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,, 
believe  that  the  manufacture  and  wholesale  free  distribution  of  antitoxin  and 
vaccine  virus  by  Boards  of  Health  throughout  the  United  States  are  liable  to 
grave  abuses  and  unjust  to  those  who  are  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  these 
products;  and 
Whereas,  There  is,  in  our  opinion,  no  more  reason  for  such  extravagant 
expenditure  of  the  public  funds  than  there  is  for  the  wholesale  free  distribution 
of  food  and  clothing;  and 
Whereas,  It  is  well  known  that  serums  and  vaccines  are  furnished  to  thou- 
sands who  are  in  no  need  of  charitable  aid;  and 
Whereas,  The  experience  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  fourteen  children  lost 
their  lives  through  the  use  of  impure  antitoxin  manufactured  in  the  laboratory 
of  the  St.  Louis  City  Board  of  Health,  directs  attention  to  the  inexpediency  of 
intrusting  the  making  of  such  preparations  to  Boards  of  Health  dominated  by 
political  influences;  and 
Whereas,  It  has  been  found  that  where  Boards  of  Health  have  the  power 
to  manufacture  or  give  away  vaccine  virus  or  antitoxin  the  sales  of  the  article 
by  druggists  even  in  favored  localities  have  been  seriously  interfered  with; 
be  it 
Resolved,  (1)  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion that  Boards  of  Health  are  acting  beyond  the  duties  especially  assigned 
them  in  the  manufacturing,  selling  or  giving  away,  except  to  the  destitute,  any 
remedial  agents,  serums,  vaccines,  etc.  (2)  That  in  so  doing  they  interfere 
with  the  discharge  of  their  own  legitimate  duties,  the  interests  of  manufac- 
turers, retailers  and  the  drug  trade  generally,  to  the  detriment  of  the  whole 
community. 
The  resolutions  were  adopted,  and  the  secretary  of  the  Association 
instructed  to  lay  the  resolutions  before  Congress,  the  several  State 
Legislatures  and  the  municipal  governments  of  the  principal  cities 
of  the  United  States. 
The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year:  Chair- 
man, J.  W.  T.  Knox ;  Secretary,  Harry  B.  Mason ;  Associates,  G.  T. 
Gable,  M.  W.  Bamford  and  C.  A.  Mayo. 
The  following  papers  were  presented  to  this  Section : 
