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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.

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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