An informal conference on the control of narcotic drugs in China was held on Thursday afternoon, under the championship of Dr, Wu Lien-teh, Chairman of the Mane! inn Plague Prevention Bureau, attended by representative foreign. and Chinese medical men who are working on anti-narcotic lines.
In an opening address before the group, Dr. Wu declared that a serious recrudescence of the narcotic evil all over China has been marked during the past eight years. The smell of opium smoke greets one, often, upon entrance into Chinese hotels, residences of officials, and even in private homes. In the same connexion, Dr. Wu pointed out that China was assuming equally distressing proportions, many former opium addicts having taken to morphine to ease their cravings for opium. winter throughout the cities of North China morphine addicts died in the sh after a period of extreme destitution Dr, Wu said. Even it telligent and wealthy people wore coming to use morphine more and more, carrying their pills about w them' and ascribing to the drug remedies for practically every kind ill
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