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ingredient which preparation is used or intended to

be used for smoking, chewing or swallowing or for

external use. Such preparations are of course

otherwise provided for.

(2)

Cocaine or Eucaine or any analogue in-

cluding their salts solutions and preparations.

But some proprietary medicines which con-

tain opium or its alkaloids are excluded from the

operation of the Ordinance.

Importation or exportation except by or through the Principal Civil Medical Officer is a punishable offence. In other respects the law was

not altered.

No change has been made in the law in force

in the Federated halay States and the conditions

under which the drugs may be imported, sold, or administered are identical with those obtaining in the Straits Settlements under the Jeleterious Drugs

Ordinance 1907.

of the other Lalay States under British

pro tection, Kedah and Perlis prohibit, under an Enact- ment passed in 1910, the importation of drugs without the written permission of the head of the State

Council.

In Hong Kong the restrictions on the traffic

in morphine are more rigid than those imposed on the traffic in cocaine or other deleterious drugs. Until

1909 the law in force was the Morphine Ordinance of

1893 which prohibited injection of morphine by un-

qualified persons. Under the opium ordinance 1909, morphine, which includes morphia and all salts of

morphine