Report of the International Opium Commission Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:24:33 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 International Opium Commission https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/international-opium-commission.html President:THE RIGHT REVEREND CHARLES H. BRENT, D.D.Bishop of the Philippine Islands( Chief Commissioner of the American Delegation) Secretary :FRED. W. CAREY(Associate-Delegate for China)Assistant (and French) Secretary : XAVIER DE LAFORCADE( Secretary to the French Delegation)Official Stenographer : J. WALLIS BRININGClerk LI KWAY-YOONG(Chinese Imperial Maritinze Customs) List of Delegations and Representatives America, United States of. DELEGATES:— The Right Reverend CHARLES H. BRENT, ... Report of the International Opium Commission Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Minutes of the First Session https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/minutes-of-the-first-session.html 1St FEBRUARY, 1909 THE PROCEEDINGS commenced at ir.4o a.m. On the proposal of one of the Chinese delegates, the Hon. Lew Yuk-lin, which was seconded by the Right Hon. Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, Chief Commissioner of the British Delegation, the Right Reverend Bishop Brent, Chief Commissioner of the Delegation representing the United States of America, was unanimously elected President of the Commission. Taking the Chair at 11.45 a.m., the PRESIDENT addressed the House as follows:— Fellow Membe... Report of the International Opium Commission Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Report of the Proceedings https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/report-of-the-proceedings.html THE COMMISSION assembled for the first time at i a.in, on the ist February, i9o9, in the Palace Hotel at Shanghai. His Excellency Tuan Fang, Viceroy of the Liangkiang, nominated by Imperial Rescript for the purpose, welcomed the delegates in an address, which was afterwards repeated in English by Taotai Wen Ping-chung. The translation read was as follows:-- Gentlemen.—On the 2oth of September, 1906, an Imperial Edict was issued prohibiting the cultivation and use of opium throughout the Empir... Report of the International Opium Commission Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Minutes of the Second Session https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/minutes-of-the-second-session.html 2nd FEBRUARY, 1909 THE PRESIDENT took the Chair at 2,30 p.m. Before the business of the meeting commenced, the Right Hon. Sir CECIL CLEMEN TI SMITH, addressing the Chair, asked on behalf of himself and the members of the Commission that the President's inaugural speech might be printed verbatinz, and copies furnished to each delegate. The President acceded to this request. The Minutes of the previous meeting of the Commission were read by the Secretary and passed. The following- statement was... Report of the International Opium Commission Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:37:52 +0100 Minutes of the Third Session https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/minutes-of-the-third-session.html 5th FEBRUARY, I 909 THE CONIMISSION assembled at it a.m. The PRESIDENT announced that the Minutes of the previous meeting would not be read unless called for. Monsieur de GIETER having given notice of his intention to resign, Monsieur de Laforcade was nominated Assistant Secretary, on the proposition of Monsieur Ratard ; and Mr. True was appointed official stenographer to the Commission. A Committee of Ways and Means was appointed, with authority to defray, and at the same time devise means fo... Report of the International Opium Commission Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Minutes of the Fourth Session https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/minutes-of-the-fourth-session.html 8th FEBRUARY, 1909 THE PRESIDENT took the Chair at io.3o a.m.    H.E. Tsunejiro Miyaoka. called attention to an ainbiguity in the Report on Japan: page 27. Under "Purchases and Sales," the quantities given are in Kilos, the decimal point being carried to three places. Dr. TENNEY enquired if the Japanese Delegation intended to present any report dealing with the opium question in Corea. Monsieur Miyaoka, in reply, stated that Corea had been omitted from the Japanese Report by an o... Report of the International Opium Commission Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Minutes of the Fifth Session https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/minutes-of-the-fifth-session.html 10th F EBRUARY. I 909 ON the Chair being taken by the President at lo.3o a.m., Mr. J. B. BRUNVATE rose to present a report on the opium and morphine question as it concerns India and Burma. Reviewing seriatim the various sections of the report, he elucidated, and occasionally amplified from personal knowledge, those points which he desired to bring more particularly to the notice of the Commission. Dealing first with the question of morphine, Mr. Brunyate stated that the morphia habit was of co... Report of the International Opium Commission Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Minutes of the Sixth Session https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/minutes-of-the-sixth-session.html 12th FEBRUARY, 1909 THE PRESIDENT tool: his seat at io.3o a.m. Dr. Karl Bernauer presented a report on opium and its use in Austria-Hungary, where the problem is not acute, and he was followed by Mr. M. D. Rizaeff, who read a brief Memorandum (prepared by the Secretary to the Persian Delegation, Mr. B. A. Somekh) dealing with the opium question as it concerns Persia, and declared his willing,ness to supply anv further information in his power. On behalf of the Russian delegation and himself, Si... Report of the International Opium Commission Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Minutes of the Seventh Session https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/minutes-of-the-seventh-session.html 15th February, 1909 THE President called the House to order at 10.30 a.m. and announced the names of the Delegates chosen to serve on the Committees, the formation of which was resolved by the House at the last sitting. The appointment of Mr. J. W. Brining as official stenographer to the Commission from the 13th February was confirmed. The Right Hon. Sir Cecil Clement: Smith read a reply to a question put to the British Delegation at the previous sitting by Dr. Hamilton Wright concerning the i... Report of the International Opium Commission Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Minutes of the Eighth Session https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/minutes-of-the-eighth-session.html 18th FEBRUARY, I 909 On taking the Chair at 10.30 a.m., the PRESIDENT announced the names of those Delegates whom he had selected to serve on the Committee on Treaties and International Agreements touching the opium traffic. On behalf of the House he welcomed Mr. Mackenzie King, Representative for Canada on the British Delegation. Mr. BRUN VATE then notified the House that he had telegraphed to India on behalf of the British Delegation for statistics of the imports of morphine and other figure... Report of the International Opium Commission Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Minutes of the Ninth Session https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/minutes-of-the-ninth-session.html 19th FEBRUARY, I 909 THE SESSION opened at 10.3o a.m., the order of the day being the further consideration of Mr. T'ANG KUO-AN'S resolution of the previous dav, which ran as follows:— " That a Committee consisting of five Delegates be appointed to consider and report on the medical aspects of the opium question, including the best methods of curing the opium habit without recourse to the drug or any of its derivatives." The Right Hon. Sir CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH, rising to continue the discuss... Report of the International Opium Commission Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Minutes of the Tenth Session https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/minutes-of-the-tenth-session.html 22nd FEBRUARY 1909 THE CoMMISSION assembled at 10.3o a.m. The Chair announced with regret that Signor FARAONE, the Delegate representing Italy, was ill, and linable to attend. He also expressed his regret in that the name of the Secretary of the Persian Delegation, Mr. B. A. SOMEKH, had been omitted from the official list of representatives, but the Secretary of the Commission would take steps to ha\ e this mistake rectified.The Chief Commissioner for the Netherlands presented to the House the ... Report of the International Opium Commission Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Minutes of the Eleventh Session https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/minutes-of-the-eleventh-session.html 23rd FEBRUARY, I 909THE PRESIDENT took the Chair at io.3o a.m.After the Chief Commissioner of the British Delegation had read replies to questions asked by the American and Chinese Delegations during the last sitting, Dr. R6SSLER moved that the resolutions to be submitted to the Commission should first be discussed by a Com-mittee, in order that unnecessary debate might be avoided. The Right Hon. Sir CECIL CLEIENTI SMITH thought that the resolutions should go to a Committee after, and not before,... Report of the International Opium Commission Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Minutes of the Twelfth Session https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/minutes-of-the-twelfth-session.html 24th FEBRUARY, 1909THE House was called to order at 2.30 p.m. The Chief Commissioner for Japan submitted a further reply to the question presented by Mr. R. L m.P., during, the fifth Session.The CHAIRMAN announced that the Delegate for Russia found it impossible at the moment to present a report about the opium question as regards his country, but that it would be forthcoming later. On this there was some discussion as to the printing of the Minutes and the Reports. The PRESIDENT enquired whether... Report of the International Opium Commission Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Minutes of the Thirteenth Session https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/minutes-of-the-thirteenth-session.html 25th FEBRUARY, 1909THE business of the Commission commenced at ro.3o a.m. The PRESIDENT read a letter which he had received from the Delegate for Italy, who regretted that he was still unable through illness to attend. A communication was also read from Mr. Charles B. Towns, who had placed a formula for the cure of victims of the opium habit in the hands of the President.Dr. TENNEY' read the summary of a report submitted by the Committee on existing National Agreements covering- the Opium Traffic... Report of the International Opium Commission Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Minutes of the Fourteenth Session https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/minutes-of-the-fourteenth-session.html 26til FEBRUARY, 1909The PRESIDENT took the Chair at 2.3o p.m.The Chief Commissioner for Portug-al, Senhor POTIER, addressed the House :—" Duly authorized by m), Government, I have the honour to make the following Declaration :—" Considering that this is a Commission of study, the Portuguese Government wishes to carefully examine the text, conditions and basis of the proposals presented by the various delegates, as well as the reports and information furnished by the local Authorities of the c... Report of the International Opium Commission Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Resolutions https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/resolutions.html The following are the Resolutions as adopted, in their revised form :—BE IT RESOLVED :i• nat the International Opium Commission recognises the unswerving sincerity of the Government of China in their efforts to eradicate the production and consumption of Opium throughout the Empire ; the increasing body of public opinion among their own subjects by which these efforts are being supported; and the real, though unequal, progress already made in a task which is one of the greatest magnitude.2. t... Report of the International Opium Commission Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 CORRESPONDENCE https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/correspondence.html CORRESPONDENCESHANGHAI, I 5t11 March, 19o9.To Signor R. FARAONE,Delegate for Italy to the International Opium Commission.DEAR MR. FARAONE,In accordance with the desire expressed by the President in his letter to you of the 25th February, I now beg to send you for perusal a copy of the Minutes, and shall be glad if you will record your vote where necessary. I may draw your attention to the followingPage 57 : 1th Session : Previous question moved by Mr. Miyaoka, during the discus-sion on Dr. Tenney... Report of the International Opium Commission Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Vol. Il. REPORTS OF THE DELEGATIONS https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/vol-il-reports-of-the-delegations.html International Opium CommissionSHANGHAI, CHINAFebruary 1 to February 26, 1909Vol. Il. REPORTS OF THE DELEGATIONSSHANGHAI :PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE NORTH-CHINA DAILY NEWS & HERALD LTD.1909 CONTENTS.UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:Report    ...    iStatistical Tables    ...    ...    ...    ...    ...    ...    ...    25Appendix A, Act to restrict-th... Report of the International Opium Commission Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 America, United States of. https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/america-united-states-of.html February 5th, 1909. MR. PRESIDENT : The American Opium Commission presents its Report on the Opium Question as it affects our States, Territories and the District of Columbia and the Possessions under our flag. We propose to deploy our data under the following heads:— NATIONAL. TREATIES, with other Governments engaging us in regard to opium traffic.TARIFFS, under which we import opium into the United States, its Territories and the District of Columbia.EXCISE LAII S, governing the manufact... Report of the International Opium Commission Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Austria and Hungary. https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/austria-and-hungary.html Opium not being produced either in Austria or in Hungary, no opium is exported from the Dual Monarchy. On account of the small imports of opium into Austria-Hungary the official statistics do not show the exact quantity of imported opium; the yearly import of opium is estimated to vary between 1,400 and 2,000 kilogrammes ; the average yearly consumption is therefore about o.o5 grammes per head of the total population. Nearly the whole of the imported opium is shipped from Constantinople to Tries... Report of the International Opium Commission Sat, 09 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 China. https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/china.html I.—HISTORICAL NOTE ON OPIUM.(Extracted from various sources.) PREVIOUS to the Tang dynasty (A.D. 618) the poppy was apparently unknown to the Chinese botanists and physicians. The first mention in literature is in the " Supplementary Herbalist " of CHEN TSANG-CHI, an author writing- in the first half of the eighth century, who quotes from an earlier lost writer, SUNG YANG-TZ5 a statement that " The poppy has four petals, white or red. . . . The seeds are in a bag- (capsule described), . . . be... Report of the International Opium Commission Fri, 08 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 France et Indo-Chine. https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/france-et-indo-chine.html LA QUESTION DE L'OPIUM ET DE LA MORPHINE EN FRANCE 1. CULTURE ET COMMERCE DE L'OPIUM. ( Opium brut et Chandoo) L'opium n'est importé en France que sous la forme d'opium brut destiné aux usages pharmaceutiques. La culture du pavot n'a lieu en France que pour extraire l'huile (huile d'oeillette). Les essais entrepris pour en tirer l'opium n'ont jatnais réussi, le prix de revient étant trop élevé. Le dernier essai remonte 1862 et avait étt4 négatif comme les précédents. Il entrait (ca... Report of the International Opium Commission Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 The German Empire and Kiaochow https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/the-german-empire-and-kiaochow.html .REPORT OF THE GERMAN DELEGATES TO THE INTERNATIONAL OPIUM COMMISSION. PART 1.—THE GERMAN EMPIRE. 1.—The Imperial Ordinance of the 22nd of October .r9o.r, regarding the sale of medicines (see Reichsgesetzblatt 19o1, page 38o).According to §I certain preparations as solid, or liquid extracts, dry and liquid mixtures, solutions, tabloids, pills, plasters, ointments, etc., shall, for medical purposes, only be sold by apothecaries. Paragraph 2 provides that opium, its alcaloids and their salts... Report of the International Opium Commission Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Regulations and Restrictions regarding Opium in Great Britain and its Possessions, etc. https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/regulations-and-restrictions-regarding-opium-in-great-britain-and-its-possessions-etc.html PAPER I.—GREAT BRITAIN. In Great Britain the importation and exportation of opium is not subject to anv restriction under Customs law or departmental regulations and the only provision ot the Pharmacy Act, 186S, which affects the exportation of the drug, is that it must be labelled " Poison." Under Section 17 of the above Act it is unlawful to sell opium either by whole-sale or by retail, unless the box, bottle, vessel, wrapper, or cover, in which such opium is contained, be distinctly labell... Report of the International Opium Commission Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Regulations and Restrictions regarding Morphia, -Morphine, and other Derivatives and Compounds ... https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/regulations-and-restrictions-regarding-morphia-morphine-and-other-derivatives-and-compounds-of-opium-in-great-britain-and-its-possessions-etc.html PAPER I.-GREAT BRITAIN. Like opium, the import and export of morphia is not subject to any restrictions tinder Customs law or departmental regulations; but the Pharmacy Act, 1868 provides that on exportation by wholesale dealers it must be labelled "Poison." The same Act makes it unlawful to sell morphia, either by wholesale or retail, unless the receptacle in which it is contained is distinctly labelled with the name Morphia and the word Poison and to sell morphia to any person unknown to the ... Report of the International Opium Commission Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Report on Opium and Morphia in Canada https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/report-on-opium-and-morphia-in-canada.html OPIUM.PART I, PAPER VIII. In Canada the importation, manufacture and sale of opium for other than medicinal purposes is prohibited. The prohibition Act was passed on July zoth 1908, but six months' grace was given to persons having opium for other than medicinal purposes in their possession, to dispose of the same by export, provided the opium, whether crude or powdered, was deposited in a Customs bonded warehouse for export under regulations established by the Minister of Customs. Persons vio... Report of the International Opium Commission Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Memorandum on Opium in India https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/memorandum-on-opium-in-india.html I.—PRODUCTION. SYSTEM OF REGULATION OF PRODUCTION. I.—The two main centres of opium production in India are— (a) Bihar in the Province of Bengal, and the districts of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh lying along the Gangetic Valley and north of it, the produce of which is termed Bengal opium, and (b) a large number of Native States in the Central India and Rajputana Agencies the chief producing States being Gwalior, Indore and Bhopal in the former and Mewar in the latter. The prod... Report of the International Opium Commission Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Memorandum on Morphia in India. https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/memorandum-on-morphia-in-india.html The earlier information regarding inorphia in India is somewhat fragmentary. Action was taken in the direction of suppressing the use of the drug, except for strictly medicinal purposes, at first by some of the provinces in which the habit first appeared, and afterwards by all provinces at the instance of the Government of India when their attention was called to the matter in i9o4. The following are some of the isolated facts bealing on the subject.The use of morphia pills was noticed in Akyab i... Report of the International Opium Commission Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Hongkong https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/hongkong.html Hongkong Ordinance No. 9 of 1887.* An Ordinance for the better Regulation of the Trade in Opium.\\st June 1887.] Whereas it i.s expedient to regulate and control the movement of raw opium within the Colony and the waters thereof: Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :—I.—This Ordinance may be cited as the Raw Opium Ordinance, 1887.2.—In this Ordinance—"Opium" means raw, crude, or unprepared opium:"Chest of o... Report of the International Opium Commission Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100 Memorandum on Opium and Morphine presented to the International Opium Commission at Shanghai by ... https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Report-of-the-International-Opium-Commission/memorandum-on-opium-and-morphine-presented-to-the-international-opium-commission-at-shanghai-by-the-italian-delegate.html There is no poppy cultivation to speak of in the Kingdom of Italy; from the rareplants, growing here and there, the fresh capaules are taken, dried and used for medical purposes.No opium, morphine, or derivates therefrom, are manufactured in the country whichhas no export of these drugs.The statistics for for import show no special return of opium, morphine and derivates,such commodities coming under the heading "Poison"; however, it is roughly estimated thatabout 2080 kilogrammes of opium were i... Report of the International Opium Commission Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100