Report on the public health / Southern Rhodesia.

  • Southern Rhodesia. Department of Health.
Date:
[1931]
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Credit: Report on the public health / Southern Rhodesia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Export Certificates.—Thirty-one permits were issued, covering the export of the following drugs to Northern Rhodesia and the Union of South Africa, as compared with 29 in 1930. Drug1. 1930. Ounces. 1931. Ounces. Medicinal opium . — 8.4 Opium (in tinctures, extracts and other preparations) . 0.11 27.8 Morphine alkaloid. 6.6 2.6 Diacetyl morphine (heroin) . 1.11 0.14 Cocaine. 4.41 3.9 Nineteen permits were issued by the Veterinary Department in 1931 for the purchase of 157 ounces of tincture of opium, as against 21 permits for 173.5 ounces during 1930. R. A. ASKINS, M.D., Medical Director.