ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3171, 23 August 1917, Page 5

ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY

SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED. Tho project of tho Wellington chemists to closo up thoir shops at (i o'clock oncJi evening in tho week (Friday and Saturday excepted), and provide; M a substitute, an all-night pharmacy, was successfully launched on Monday evening. It is interesting lo learn that boliveen l! p.m. on Monday/and 8 a.ni. on Tuesday only twelve prescriptions 'were dispensed, which those interested .in tho project take as proof that it was folly, for thirtysix pharmacies to remain open until 9 o'clock of an evening, when tho number of prescriptions needed was so few.

It should bo clearly understood Hint the all-night phnrmacy lias only been established for the dispensing of prescriptions, and is not a chemist's shop. In tho caso of prescriptions from the inotli-. enl men of tho friendly societies, the}; will have to be marked urgent by the doctor before they will bo attended to at tho night pharmacy, tho argument for such a courso being that if they are not urgently needed they can wait until tho insAuckland pharmacists are now seeking information in Wellington as to tho details of the scheme that has been put inlo operation hero, and it is considered that huforo long tho northern Centre will also fiavo its nigrht pharmacy and tho chemists their OToninss off.