The Archive · 1926

Threat to Quinine Monopoly

League of Nations Commission Seeking a Substitute London, Feb, 11.

The "Morning Post's" Geneva correspondent telegraphs.that the League of Nations Commission on Malaria has reported that _nine-tenths of the world's annual production of cinchona bark, totalling 10,600 tons, is produced inthe Dutch Indids. The demand for quinine considerably exceeds the annual supply of 600,000 kilogrammes, view of the failure of its [efforts to secure a reduction in prices and increased production, the! Commission started experiments. to decide whether cinchonine and ettler alkaloids and a combination of cinchona and alkaloids cannot be used instead of pure qui the object of securing a subs thereby breaking the qui poly through econo Reuter.

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