suggested by Mr Crow nor do we
think
any
such ordinance would
be of any use.
the 14
Mr Grow in his letter of to october 1890 proposes that the
:lation he suggests should be
legislation
restricted to
Arvenic
2 Sahura Alba
suggest
are sold.
(3) Gelsomrium elegans. yet he does not show or even- that these poisons are sold in Hongkong
by whom they Unless these poisons are sold here it is obviously useless to pass preventing or interfering with their sale. According to the papers annreyed it appears that Datura.
a law
rows in waste places around the villages in this Island and that Gelsemium grows sparingly in
Hongkong
but.
abundantly a
ar
the hills of the neighbouring
27
naniland.
216
Mr. Crow states that he
has no experience of my poisoning by arsenic but that Mr. McCallum has recorded, a case in 1879 that poisoning by Gelsemium elegans
is of rare occurrence but that Satura poisoning has been commen
cough.
The records however of the Eupreme Court show no case
of
poisoning for the last ten years though
of
there have been 5 or 6 cases.
administering shopifying drugs
for the purposes of larceny. Chinese are not given
the-
to poisoning
unless when they want to commit suicide and then an overdose of
us it is an
opium is resorted to. It would be obviously impracticable to regulate the sale of opium article of daily people.
ASV ant
amongst the
mainland
We