§ SIR THOMAS DEWAR (Tower Hamlets, St. George's)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, having regard to the fact that attention has been called by the Coroner for the City of London, and other officers holding similar positions, to deaths through misadventure arising from the sale of poisons in unlabelled vessels, will he consider the expediency of adding poisons such as phosphorous, cocaine, and chlorodynes to the Schedule of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, and arranging for the prohibition of the sale of corrosive mineral acids and ammonia unless in vessels bearing the word poison; and will the sale of poisonous preparations to young children be prohibited.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers Douglas.) It does not rest with me to take any such measures as are suggested; but I may refer my hon. friend to the Answer given yesterday by the First Lord of the Treasury‡ to the effect that a Bill to amend the Pharmacy Acts will be introduced in another place after Easter.