Health - Historical Notes

The following summaries are included herein for reference purposes.

1. Acts of 1887, Chapter 146, divided Tennessee into three main divisions in respect to the area the institutions of mental health would serve. Jefferson County was among the 32 counties which would send mental patients to the Eastern Tennessee Hospital for the Insane which was located near Knoxville.
2. Private Acts of 1921, Chapter 819, made it lawful in Jefferson County (identified by the use of the 1920 Federal Census figures) for any person who had held permits from the State Board of Pharmacy for six consecutive years to conduct a drug store, or a pharmacy, and to sell therein drugs, medicines, and the like normally sold in such an establishment and to fill and compound prescriptions. Any person so doing must take out and pay for a license which would be issued to him by the State upon application and payment of the fee.