CIRCULARS. No. 20.-MEDICINES proper to be supplied for USE of DISPENSARIES.-CIRCULAR to BOARDS of GUARDIANS.

Poor Law Commission Office, Dublin, 30th May, 1866.

SIR, The Commissioners for administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland have had occasion to consider the two Lists of Medicines marked respectively (A) and (B), copies of which were forwarded to the Board of Guardians on the 4th July, 1862; the List marked A being intended to assist the Board of Guardians in reference to the estimates of Medical Officers and requisitions of Dispensary Committees for medicines for use at the dispensaries; and the List marked B being intended for parties tendering for medicines to insert the prices at which they will undertake to supply them.

The Commissioners think it desirable that in future the following medicines, which have hitherto been included in the List A only, should be transferred to and form part of the Contract List (B); and they request that the Guardians will be so good as to have this done in any lists which may remain on hands, and in future reprints they will be inserted,

No. 21.-SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, &c., to be fur- CIRCULAR 3. nished for DISPENSARY USE.-CIRCULAR to

BOARDS of GUARDIANS.

Poor Law Commission Office, Dublin,
10th July, 1852.

SIR,-1. The Commissioners for administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland have received communications, from which it appears that considerable diversity of practice exists in regard to the supply of surgical instruments for the use of dispensaries under the Medical Charities Act; and the Commissioners having in various instances been applied to for their opinion as to the description of instruments which it would be proper for the Board of Guardians to supply, where the dispensary is not already supplied with them, they desire to state that, as a general rule, they are of opinion that where a requisition for such instruments is made through the Committee, in pursuance of Article 12, No. v., and Article 20 of the General Rules for the Government of Dispensary Districts, the Guardians should cause to be supplied such surgical instruments as are of a perishable nature, or such as are so constantly required in dispensary practice that they should be kept at the dispensary, or such as are consumed by use in individual cases.

2. For the assistance of the Board of Guardians in reference to any such requisitions received by them, the Commissioners transmit herewith a list of instruments which may be deemed to be included in the three classes above described, as also a list of other requisites which should be furnished for the use of the respective dispensaries.

3. In case of any other instruments being applied for, or in case of doubt whether any particular instruments not mentioned in the annexed list come

Article 16, v., and Article 28 in the amended Regulations of 29th November, 1869, pp. 882 and 887.

CIRCULARS. Within the above description, and whether it would be proper for the Board of Guardians to supply them for dispensary use at the cost of the poor rates, the Commissioners will be prepared to give their opinion, if requested by the Guardians. By order of the Commissioners,

W. STANLEY, Secretary.

To the Clerk of the Board of Guardians
of each Union.

No. 22. REQUISITES (not being MEDICINES) to be furnished for DISPENSARY use.

A.-Surgical Instruments.

Sponge.

Lint.

Surgical Instruments.

Pill Boxes-card, paper, and wooden.

Calico for bandages and Weights and Scales.

plasters.

Twine.