Chinese Government Oflice for Shanghai Recent revelations of the heavy importations of drugs into China. have led to the establishment of a bureau of inspection in Shanghar under the auspices of the Chinese Government. The history of the establishment of the institution roughly starts with a request by the Inspector-General of Customs on March 3, 1918, for the establishment of such a bureau for the strict control of narcotic drugs. The Ministry of the Interior brought up this subject at the meeting of the Cabinet for discussion, when it was decided that the Bureau, under the Ministry, should control and guard against the smuggling and_ illicit sale of narcotic drugs On account of political disturbances, however, its establishment was indefinitely postponed.
Latterly it has been discovered that Shanghai, besides other places, is a hotbed of such drugs, and it is necessary that measures should be taken at once to check the rapid- growth of the evil. Accordingly, in conformity with the stipulations of the International Opium Convention. signed at The Hague, on January 23, 1912, a Bureau of Drug Inspection and Standardization has been established at Shanghai for controlling the sale and distribution of narcotic drugs, such as morphine, cocaine, heroin, and their respective salts. It is the Chinese Government's intention to establish the Bureau first at Shanghai, and later at 1mportant centres in.the country.
Dr. H. ©. Lee, a returned student from America, and for years in the service of the Government at Peking and in Shanghai, has been appointed as the Commissioner of the Bureau. The office is situated at No. 55 Boulevard des Deux Republiques.
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