CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917 — Page 251

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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]

OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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(No. 94.) Sir,

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No. 1.

Mr. Alston to Mr. Balfour.-(Received April 27.)

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[April 27.]

SECTION 1.

Peking, March 17, 1917. WITH reference to Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 170 of the 22nd June last, forwarding new Chinese regulations for the control of the trade in morphia, I have the honour to euclse copy of a resolution on morphine passed by the joint conference of the National Medical Association and the China Medical Missionary Association in Canton on the 30th January, 1917.

This resolution was forwarded to me.

e by Dr. Wu Lien Teh, president of the National Medical Association of China.

I have, &c.

Enclosure in No. 1.

B. ALSTON.

Resolution passed by Joint Medical Conference, Canton, January 30, 1917.

WHEREAS, the National Medical Association and the China Medical Missionary Association, in joint conference assembled, have heard with deep concern of the enormous and rapidly increasing importation into China of morphine. And whereas such importation is largely surreptitious, therefore be it

Resolved, that the National Medical Association and the China Medical Missionary Association place on record their conviction that the uncontrolled use of this drug will do far more harm to the nation than was ever done by opium, and believes that this imminent danger can only be averted by the Chinese Government enforcing without delay the provisions of the Hague Opium Convention of the 23rd January, 1912 (including adequate pharmacy laws) so as to confine the employment of morphine to legi imate medicinal uses.

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