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in force in the Straits Settlements regulating the

importation, sale and use of morphia, cocaine &c. was the

Deleterious Drugs Ordinance 1907. Under its provisions

no deleterious drug could be imported or exported to the

Federated 'alay States without written permission from the

Principal Civil "edical Officer; and no person except a

medical practitioner or chemist licensed by the Principal

Civil edical Officer could prescribe or deal in the

drugs.

The administration or possession of such drugs

or any one not licensed or not acting under the instruc-

tions of a licensed person was a punishable offence.

In October 1910 the ordinance was repealed by

the Deleterious Drugs Ordinance 1910 which (1) vested the

exclusive right of importing and exporting such drugs

in the Principal ivil "edical Officer; (2) compelled

medical practitioners and chemist to order drugs only

through the Principal Civil "edical Officer and to submi

to examination by that officer the packages received

as a result of their order; (3) extended the system of

licensing to veterinary surgeons and dentists.

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For the purposes of the Ordinance deleterious drugs

include

(1) Morphine and all salts of morphine and

preparations containing morphine and any alkaloid or

salt of an alkaloid of opium and any solution or

preparation thereof, but not including any preparation

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of opium or any preparation/which opium forms an

ingredient which preparation is used or intended to

be used for smoking, chewing or swallowing or for

external use,

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(2) Cocaine or Bucaine or any analogue incluaing

their salts solutions and preparations.

But some proprietary medicines which con-

tais opium or its alkaloids are excluded from the

operation of the Ordinance.

Importation or exportation except by or

through the Principal Civil Vedical Officer is a

punishable offence. In other respects the law was

not altered.

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