QUACKERY PREVENTION BILL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8551, 9 October 1907, Page 5

QUACKERY PREVENTION BILL.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATIONS. (By Telegraph—Parliamentary Correspondent) . WELLINGTON, October 8. The committee to whom was referred Mr J. T. M. Hornsby's Quackery Prevention Bill having taken the evidence of witnesses and considered a number of communications thereon, have recommended that the Bill be not proceeded with in its present form, but in view of the serious matters sought to be dealt with, strongly impresses upon the Government the urgent necessity of passing legislation this session, viz. (1) preventing the advertising and supply of any preparation, medicine or appliance alleged to be a cure for any ailment or physical defect which in the opinion of a Judge of the Supreme Court is harmful to health or of a fraudulent nature or cannot have the effect claimed for it; (2) to make it unlawful for any person to sell or attempt to sell or supply any preparation or medicine unless accompanied by a .formula legibly printed on the label, this pro> vision not to apply to prescriptions of registered medical practitioners or to any person who proves to a Judge that the preparation is original and secret and uninjurious to health, and that the preparation may have the effect claimed, and that it may be safely entrusted to uninformed persons for self-treatment; (3) to make it unlawful for any person other than I a registered practitioner or a qualiI lied veterinarian to sell or supply appliances or a preparation for preventive purposes, "appliance" or "preparation" to be defined by a regulation in the Gazette. Mr Hornsby, speaking in the House, this afternoon, remarked on the painstaking way in which the committee had done its work, and particularly the Chairman (Mr Hanan), and added that a great deal of very valuable evidence had been given as a result of the committee's deliberations.