Health - Historical Notes

The following summaries are included herein for reference purposes.

1. Private Acts of 1921, Chapter 780, made it lawful for anyone who has practiced pharmacy anywhere in the United States under the supervision of a registered pharmacist for as many as ten years to practice pharmacy in Hawkins County.
2. Private Acts of 1933, Chapter 303, stated that in Hawkins and Hancock counties any person of good moral character, over 21 years of age, who had been continuously engaged in the practice of medicine, was authorized to continue the practice of medicine in the above counties under the general state laws relating thereto.
3. Private Acts of 1937, Chapter 283, recited that Dr. H.C. Cross, of Hawkins County, had practiced medicine there for almost fifty years, and he was a person of good moral character. This act permitted him to continue the practice of medicine in that county provided he filed an affidavit of the above statement of facts with the state board of medical examiners.