§ MR. WOODSI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he aware that carbolic acid is allowed to be sold in mineral water and other bottles without being labelled as poison, and that the Pharmaceutical Society has recommended on three occasions, February 1882, February 1886, and October 1888, to the Privy Council that carbolic acid should be scheduled as a poison; and whether the Government will at an early date give effect to the promise of the Privy Council in this matter?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENTI understand that the Privy Council, while not thinking it expedient to include carbolic acid in the schedule to the Pharmacy Act, are of opinion that regulations should be made with regard to its sale 963 and the sale of other poisonous substances, and in accordance with the promise given, have prepared a Bill for the purpose which will shortly be introduced.