Show VT LICENSES EXCEED nearly physicians have received permits to write prescriptions DRUGGISTS IN IH BIG NUMBERS only permits for the manufacture of intoxicants have been issued one fourth of them bel balno na from california washington more afore than linn druggists druggis tit retail and wholesale and manufacturers ot of proprietary medicines flavoring extracts syruis sl ruis etc tc bavo been licensed in tile the united states and its consular possessions to date under tho the national prohibition net act according to statistics just coin piled in tile tho onico office of prohibition the the records of the internal i bureau also show allow tt that nearly physicians tit in the united states ila wall and porto rico have received permits to write prescriptions culling calling for tile the dispensation of intoxicating alti bors for medicinal purpose and that additional permits at the rato rate of 1000 h n month aro are being issued to physicians tabulation by states of the physicians ceans licensed up to june 25 show that tho prohibition director for massachusetts ling lias issued dioro than 15 per cent of tl abo o number ot 0 such permits distributed tri buted now york state hits has mother another JB 15 per cent massachusetts leads the exact figures tire nio massachusetts 2150 2450 no now york 2121 2421 2 pennsyl 1525 ohio 1450 maryland 1225 5 1150 minnesota in ill states such ns as 1111 illinois bols kansas tind end indiana where state codes will not lot permit of tile vise use of such permits no physicians have been licensed by tho the government so to prescribe porto rican physicians apparently are arc awake to their opportunities under prohibition licenses to physicians to proscribe prescribe intoxicating liquors mv ing been issued lit in t alint i t t territory rr tory or more than have been issued in arkansas new mexico Nevitt lar north dakota south dakota virginia georgia florida nuil and coill combined bIlled now new york state Is in far in tho the nan in in number of retail and wholesale whole nale druggists manufacturers of proprietary medicines extracts tind other products requiting requiring tho the vise uso of intoxicating liquor ns as nn an ingredient permits for those these dispensers of products containing con older ablo qunti titles of intoxicants have been issued to lit in now mow york state olow or about 23 per cent of f the total tit in tile alio con country rinka second with such buch permits issued up to june 25 illinois Is third tl ard with etli nearly massachusetts Is fourth with about 1800 and ohio Is less than a hundred behind in fifth place moro lloro than twice na as ninny many permits for the lie sale alone of liquors have been issued in Pennsyl vitilla ns as in tiny other state thero there are issued in tile Xe keystone santo out of for the tha entire country these tire lire Is issued med principally to rs and others having intoxicating stuff in bond but some estilo liquor dealers and possibly some boino druggists inny bo be found in this class permits for manufacture only 28 permits for the turn tura of intoxicants have been issued and more thou than it fourd of 0 those these or 11 04 have gone to the wineries wintries win eries of ciell fornin two permits of this aln class a have boon been issued to distillers of whisky both in pennsylvania according to en officials thirty alve of tho sixty rectifier flem license have been granted to firms in now new york state 0 chloa state prohibition director ling issued more permits for alio trans por tation of intoxicating liquor than linn any other with Nen kentucky tucky la is see second with and pennsylvania thlu third rd with ranks fourth with california fifth with new york sixth with connecticut seventh with and missouri eighth with ti 09 all 11 other classes of fw for tho the uso use in tiny way of intoxicating liquor in its importation or exportation for manufacture or uso use of intoxicating xa elder er for conversion into vinegar and for the iho sale bale or purchase of preparations and beverages ot 0 more than linof ot at I 1 per can contents con tonta are direct prohibition commissioners ns also are to operate de alcohol izing plants and establishments permits ill 11 II for tho the use of liquors in tho manufacture of preparations extracts mir ails etc have been barn issued up to tho the number of and permits 1 ill I for the uso use and of such liquore have been issued up to the number bf 0 these two classes of tako in both wholesalers and retailers tailors re of intoxicants with tile the quail flent lon for medicinal purposes ond because of tho the contusion confusion resulting front from similar blassl flea t ions ill 11 II and IT 1 I permits penults now tire being consolidated lit in many instances so BO that drug fists for instance may inny not only dla penso whisky etc on prescription but may also use it lit in concocting concoct ing medicinal preparations of more ono aalf of I 1 per cent alcoholic content at tho present rato rate of withdrawn from bond it will take anko only civo years for tile available lyof whisky in tho the united states to bo be consumed |