T h e A u t o m a t ic A ge
Poison From
Automatic Machines
(From World’s Fair, Oldham, Eng.)
The adjourned test case on the legality
°f selling poisons in automatic slot ma
chines was heard at Wood Green County
Court recently. Harold Ronald Watkin-
s°n, M. P. S., Lordship Lane, Tottenham,
was the defendant in an action for a
Penalty of £5 by the Council of the
Pharmaceutical Society for alleged breach
of the Pharmacy Act, 18G8, as amended
by the Poison and Pharmacy Act, 1908.
Mr. Glyn Jones, for the Society, at the
fast hearing, said it was a friendly test
ease, and there was nothing in the pro
ceedings to cast any reflection on defendant
as a chemist or his loyalty as a member
the Society. The Council took the view
that they should have access to all man
ner of poisons. Whilst it was agreed that
some poisons could be left to the common-
sense of the public, it was thought best
to have a ruling whether to sell in that
banner was lawful. Poison was on sale
ln the machine at all hours of the day and
flight when there was no qualified man
Present or near at hand to effect the sale.
ho was conducting the sale carried on
t rough an automatic machine? To carry
on a bona-fide business it needed someone
o have more than a controlling manage
ment of it. The Act of Parliament meant
at the vendor must take an active part
Jn the business and not sit in some part
of the premises and let the machines do
e selling.
Mr. Jones said that two
ottles of disinfectant were bought by an
^spector from the automatic machine out-
si e defendant’s shop. He submitted that
e machine was not “ a duly qualified
C ern^st-” Legislature required the presence
?, a fully qualified chemist to see that
e poison was of the variety required.
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Historic Slumps
in Business
Here is statistical proof that a
These
business revival is due.
figures are cited by the Alexander
Hamilton Institute:
Length of Business Recessions
Length
Year Starting
15 Months
1893
.
1895
_
_
_
13 Months
1899 __
12 Months
.
13 Months
1903
.
1907
_ _
-
8 Months
_
16 Months
1910
-
.
25 Months
1912
-
.
8 Months
1917 „
_
12 Months
1919
--
1924
_
14 Months
____ 9 Months
1927 _
.
_
? Months
1929
The current business slump began
last August and has run nearly 11
months. The recession following the
panic of 1907 lasted only 8 months.
Mr. George Pollock, for the defence,
submitted that the machine was under the
control of defendant as much as the ma
chines on the Southend Pier were under
the control of those who leased the pier.
His Honour, in adjourning the case until
last Wednesday said that it involved many
legal arguments, and his decision would
affect shops all over England, as these
machines were increasing greatly in
number.
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