Health - Historical Notes

The following summaries are included herein for reference purposes.

1. Public Acts of 1895, Chapter 187, detached Overton County and Putnam County from the eastern division of the Tennessee Hospital for the Insane, and placed them in the middle division.
2. Private Acts of 1921, Chapter 785, made it lawful in Overton County, identified by the use of the 1920 Federal Census enumeration, for any person who has owned and operated a drug store for not less than five consecutive years and who can and will furnish sworn statements by three reputable physicians as to fitness and qualification to compound drugs and medicine, to operate and conduct a drug business and to prepare pharmaceutical preparations in Overton County. Anyone proposing to do so must take out a license but the said license shall be issued as provided by law upon proper proof of the above conditions and the payment of the regular charge for it.