Pitressin tannate in oil for injection.
Compound powder of silver picrate 1 per cent. (with Kaolin).
Suppositories of silver picrate 2 per cent.
Sulphanilamide, its salts, compounds, and derivatives of sulphanil-
amide, their salts, pursuant to any one medical prescription
a supply sufficient for a period of seven days commencing on
the date of presentation of the prescription and when prescribed
for external or topical application whether as an ointment,
lotion, enema, suppository, or other similar preparation, a supply
not exceeding a total quantity of 240 grains of one or more of
the sulphonamides (whether supplied in powdered form or with
a suitable vehicle).
Thyroid tablets (fresh gland) allowed until 31st December, 1946,
when official preparations only will be allowed at the cost of
the Fund.
Water soluble analogues of vitamin K.
The following substances and preparations when supplied in
the manner described hereunder :—
(1) Penicillin for parenteral use when supplied by a public
Hospital Board and where the approval of a pathologist,
if available, is obtained or, if not available, the approval
of the Medical Superintendent of a public hospital :
(2) Diphtheria antitoxin and tetanus antitoxin manufactured
by the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories and supplied
by a public Hospital Board or by the Department of
Health.
STANDARDS FOR SUBSTANCES AND PREPARATIONS SUPPLIED AT
THE COST OF THE FUND LAID DOWN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (b) OF CLAUSE 6 OF THE DRUG
TARIFF
(1) Aluminium Hydroxide Gel
(a) Alumina Content.—Aluminium hydroxide gel shall contain
the equivalent of not less than 3·6 per cent. and not more than
4·4 per cent. w/v of A12O3, chiefly in the form of hydrous oxide of
aluminium.
(b) Acid-consuming Capacity.-Each gram of aluminium
hydroxide gel shall neutralize from 12·5 to 25 mils of N/10 hydro-
chloric acid using Bromophenol blue as an indicator.
(c) Reaction.—The pH of aluminium hydroxide gel shall be
between 6·7 and 6·9.
(d) Limit of Chloride.—Contains not more than 0·25 per cent.
as sodium chloride.
(e) Limit of Sulphate.—Contains not more than 0·05 per cent.
as sulphate.
(f) Aluminium Sulphate.—Nil.
(g) Acid Insoluble Matter.—Contains not more than 0·005 per
cent.
NOTE.—Sufficient flavouring and sweetening agents may be
added. Sodium benzoate in any amount not exceeding 0·5 per cent.
may be added as a preservative.
(2) Dried Aluminium Hydroxide Gel
(a) Acid-consuming Capacity.—Each gram of dried aluminium
hydroxide gel shall neutralize not less than 250 mils of N/10 hydro-
chloric acid.
(b) Ignition Test.-The weight of AI2O3 contained in the
residue ignited to constant weight shall be not less than 47·5 per
cent. and not more than 52·5 per cent. of the weight of dried
aluminium hydroxide gel taken for the assay.
(3) Colloidal Calamine ; Colloidal Kaolin ; Colloidal Zinc Oxide
The above substances shall comply with the respective tests
for identity and purity described in the B.P. for calamine, heavy
Kaolin, and zinc oxide, and, with respect to limits as to the size of
particles, shall comply in each case with the limits described in the
B.P. for light Kaolin.
TABLE OF AUTHORIZED MIDWIFERY PHARMACEUTICAL REQUIRE-
MENTS ALLOWED UNDER CLAUSE 14 OF THE DRUG TARIFF
(SEPTEMBER, 1946)
Column 1.
Description of Material.
Cyllin
Dettol or Pynol
Dettol Cream
Iodine, weak tincture of
Olive oil, or cotton-seed oil, or
peanut-oil
Column 2.
Maximum Quantity for One Patient.
4 oz.
4 oz.
1 tube (not to be supplied with
Dettol or Pynol)
2 oz.
3 oz.
PART 2.-PRICE RULES UNDER CLAUSE 7 OF THE DRUG
TARIFF (SEPTEMBER, 1946)
Except as provided in the following rules, no payment shall
be made from the Fund in respect of any proprietary preparation
supplied by a contractor.
Subject to the discount provided for under clause 8 of the
Drug Tariff (September, 1946) and, in the case of a medical prac-
titioner, the discount provided under the Medical Benefit Regulations,
the prices of pharmaceutical requirements supplied at the cost of
the Fund shall be determined as follows :-

1. Price rules under subclause (1) of clause 7 of the Drug Tariff
   (September, 1946) :-
   (a) Penicillin : 10 per cent. additional on cost price.
   (b) Sera : 5 per cent. additional on cost price.
   (c) In respect of the forms of any pharmaceutical requirement,
   whether proprietary or not, included in the N.Z.
   Formulary under the Table of Materials allowed under
   paragraph (b) of clause 5 of the Drug Tariff (September,
   1946), the Fund shall pay the amount that would have
   been payable from the Fund if the cheapest of the
   available forms of the substance or preparation had been
   prescribed (not exceeding in any case the appropriate
   amount specified in the First Schedule to the Rules for
   Prescription Pricing), and any excess of the price over
   the amount so payable from the Fund shall be payable
   to the contractor by the person to or for whom such
   preparation has been supplied. For the purposes of
   this proviso a preparation shall be deemed to be available
   if the contractor can obtain it from any wholesale dealer
   carrying on business in whichever of the cities of
   Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, or Dunedin is
   nearest or most convenient of access to the contractor's
   place of business.
2. Price rules under subclause (2) of clause 7 of the Drug Tariff
   (September, 1946) :-
   (1) In respect of pharmaceutical requirements supplied by a
   contractor in accordance with the said regulations, the
   Fund shall pay the price and additional fees, if any,
   computed in accordance with the provisions of clauses
   5, 8, 9, 13 to 16, 17 (3), 18 to 21, and 24 to 26 (all inclusive),
   and the First, Second, and Third Schedules of the Rules
   of Prescription Pricing issued by the Pharmacy Plan
   Industrial Committee and approved by the Minister.
   (2) In respect of proprietary forms of any pharmaceutical
   requirement that is supplied in accordance with a medical
   prescription and provided that the proprietary
   preparation (whether a single substance or a combination
   of ingredients) supplied by a contractor is identical in
   composition with any drug, medicine, or medicinal
   preparation of which a monograph or formula is
   published in any official pharmaceutical publication or
   is listed in bold-faced type in the New Zealand
   Formulary, the Fund shall pay the following or
   whichever of the said amounts is the least :-
   (i) The retail price of the proprietary preparation
   supplied by the contractor, together with the appropriate
   dispensing fee ; or
   (ii) The retail price of any other proprietary
   preparation that was available to the contractor and
   that he could properly have supplied in fulfilment of
   the prescription, together with the appropriate dispensing
   fee ; or
   (iii) The amount that would have been payable if
   the substance or the several ingredients of the
   preparation had been separately dispensed.
   A. H. NORdMEYER, Minister of Health.
   The Drug Tariff, September, 1946, Amendment No. 1
   NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to the powers conferred
   on me under section 90 of the Social Security Act, 1938,
   the following direction, cited as “The Drug Tariff, September, 1946,
   Amendment No. 1,” shall apply with respect to all medical pre-
   scriptions and midwifery orders (whatever the date thereof) that
   are presented to a contractor for fulfilment on or after the ist
   November, 1946, and shall also apply to the amendment to prices
   set out in the Pricing Supplement No. 1946/2. Such prices and
   fees computed in accordance with The Drug Tariff, September,
   1946, shall be reduced by a discount of 24 per cent. thereof.
   Nothing in the Social Security (Pharmaceutical Supplies)
   Benefit Regulations or in the Drug Tariff, September, 1946, shall
   be construed to prohibit a contractor from charging a customer
   with the price of any goods, not being pharmaceutical requirements,
   that are supplied by him, or with the difference between the price
   of any such goods and the amount payable from the fund in respect
   thereof, or with the price of any pharmaceutical requirements that
   are supplied by him in excess of the maximum quantities hereinafter
   prescribed.
   A. H. NORMEYER, Minister of Health.
   (H. 208/2.)
   The Drug Tariff, September, 1946, Amendment No. 2
   NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to the powers conferred
   on me under section 90 of the Social Security Act, 1938, the
   following direction, cited as “The Drug Tariff, September, 1946,
   Amendment No. 2,” shall apply with respect to all medical pre-
   scriptions and midwifery orders (whatever the date thereof) that are
   presented to a contractor for fulfilment on or after 16th January,
   1947, and shall apply to the amendments to prices set out in the
   First Schedule of the “Official Schedules and Rules for Prescription
   Pricing ” issued by the Pharmacy Plan Industrial Committee and
   endorsed “ Effective from 16th January, 1947.”
   A. H. NORMEYER, Minister of Health.
   (H. 208/2.)