CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920 — Page 55

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to the amount required for legitimite medicinal use and to limit their export to such countries na haya established Lews and Regulations whion effectively control the traffic in these drugs and restrict their use to legitimate purpones only".

On August 19th, 1919, Sir John Jorden wrote this

svolation ca fellows:

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"Your Coalety are cware that their efforts to put an end to the traffic in opium and its derivetives have had from the outset my full sumpathy and sup- port. in seserdange with this poliay I had sl- ready prior to the receipt of your letter under reply, nede representations to the Secretary of State on the sübjent of morphine and hed sugges- tod for the consideration of His kajoaty's Govern- ment that in view of the syparent inefficiensy of tan present system of licensing it might be advisable to supplement the existing control of the export of morphin and morphine from the United Kingdom by instituting control of production at the source",

Nothing short of Government control of Kanufacture

put on and to elandestine movements of habit-forming

such as Korphis, Seroin, Coosine, Novaine, sto. The

of control after production should be under Licenses

muủa, only those handing in a bond guaranteeing to

by the segulstions made by the Government to ba ia-

Be a License, only helders of a license being authorised

be in possession of the drug. Regulations intended to

trol the Forjhin from the time it leaves the manufnatory the time that it is administered by a duly qualified Bitoni uffieur should provide for:

1. Manufacture by the Stele or aider stete Control.

8. lf ammuľsotūrei undar Stata suntrol not more than one

mfeoturing chemist authorised to manufaatuIE.

leverment official të be attaoned to Isotory to con-

trol all nerootios anteriaj in a zaw atata sad ooming

out as a finisnad product.

Drily,

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