Health - Historical Notes

The following private or local acts constitute part of the administrative and political history of Anderson County but are today no longer operative because they have either been superseded, repealed, or failed to receive local approval.

1. Private Acts of 1933, Chapter 578, the act provided that in Anderson County ( identified by the 1930 Federal Census Count) C. J. Watts, of Coal Creek, Tennessee, had the legal authority hereunder to practice pharmacy in the county under the same rules and regulations as were applied to any other registered pharmacist.
    
2. Private Acts of 1947, Chapter 415, abolished the office of county physician in Anderson county and authorized the sheriff to call upon any physician in the county to attend to the medical needs of prisoners and to pay them the stipulated fee established by the act.