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This decision has not been taken lightly or hurriedly. has been under consideration for more than five years. The decision was taken after consultation with the advisory bodies specially appointed to assist Ministers in matters of this kind which include the best professional opinion in the land,

16. Any alteration of the decision already announced will undoubtedly disturb the authorities in those countries which are faced with serious traffic in heroin. To allow manufacture but to ban export is no solution for if illicit import is banned elsewhere export could only be to the illicit market.

29th November, 1955,

G. LL-G. I.M.

APPENDIX

Membership of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee as at 31st December, 1954

(a) Members appointed by the Minister after consultation with

the Central Health Services Council.

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Professor Sir Henry Cohen, J. P.,

M.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.C.P., F.F.R.. (Chairman)

Miss J. Aitken, C.B.E., M.D.,

F.R.C.P.

Sir Russell Brain, Bart., M.A.

D.M., P.R.C.P., (President of the Royal College of Physicians)

J.A. Brown, Esq., A.B.(R.U.I.)

B.Ch., M.D., B.A.0.

C. Metcalfe Brown, Esq., M.D., D.P.H. (Chairman of the Council of the Society

of Medical Officers of Health)

Professor Sir David Campbell, M.A., M.C., M.D., LL.D., F.R.F.F.S, (President of the General Medical

Council)

Sir Ernest Rock Carling, M.B., F.R.C.S.,

F.R.C.P., LL.D., F.F.R.

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