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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Jul 29, 1944
Page
3
A bill titled An Act Further to Amend the Health and Welfare Act 1934 has been read a first and second time by the Commission of Government and is published with Objects and Reasons. Written comments are invited to the undersigned by July 26 1944.
The bill adds Barbituric Acid derivatives and Sulfa drugs to the restricted list. Paregoric and Laudanum move from exceptions to restrictions. The Commissioner may add drugs, and repeats require original directives. No refill allowed after two months from issue. Aims align local law with international procedures.
A Bill amending the Health and Public Welfare Act 1931 tightens drug dispensing rules. It bans furnishing or selling listed drugs without an original prescription from a registered medical or veterinary practitioner, with exemptions for licensed pharmacists acting within professional practice. The list includes cocaine, codeine, opium, morphine, chloral hydrate, sulphonamides, paregoric, and related preparations, plus drugs later declared by regulation.
New ration books are issued to all adults and children in rationed areas. Card holders can obtain new books via the Magistrate and Department of Supply. Old books retain footwear, tea, sugar, and evaporated milk coupons with validity details.
Fragment of a legal notice or regulation prescribing that no duplicate prescription may be created and that originals remain open to inspection by designated officials. Violators face offences and a summary conviction with fines up to five hundred pounds.
The notice outlines ration procedures including evaporated milk exchange points, invalids eligibility with medical certification, dried egg coupons, lost ration books with affidavits and temporary cards, new or duplicate book issuance rules, and temporary cards for new entrants or visitors. Retailers are reminded to obtain full instructions.
A 1944 correspondence from Newfoundland unions and the Department of Public Works discusses wage rates in Corner Brook and Port au Port. It states a plan to pay 40 cents per hour nationwide to reduce district pay disparities and to provide 60 cents per day for board, addressing workers moving between jobs.
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