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The Second International Opium Conference

The Second International Opium Conference

THE INTERNATIONAL OPIUM CONFERENCE: The Report of the British Delegates

THE INTERNATIONAL OPIUM CONFERENCE: The Report of the British Delegates

The International Opium Conference

This conference, — the latest of the Hague Conferences to which the United States was a party, — was proposed by the United States on September 1, 1909, and convoked by the Netherlands Government on December 1, 1911. It dealt in a judicial manner with the varied and conflicting interests, diplomatic, moral, humanitarian and economic, of those governments represented and with the known similar interests of those not represented. Several of the governments in making pledges for the obliteration of the opium evil did so in the face of an eventual large financial sacrifice, but this was done thoughtfully and generously.The conference determined upon and on January 23rd last signed a convention for the suppression of the obnoxious features of their national and of the international opium, morphine and cocaine traffics, and for the regulation of that part of the production of and trade in the drugs which may be said to be legitimate. To China was confirmed much that she had contended for for a hundred years or more as to the vexatious export of Indian opium to her shores. This act, however, was but a broader recognition of what the British Government had, as between India and China, already yielded to China by virtue of the so-called Ten Year Agreement of 1907, and by the modification of that agreement signed at Peking on the 8th of May, 1911.

Circular note of the United States proposing the International Opium Conference

Circular note of the United States proposing the International Opium Conference

Death of Lord Lister — Provisions of the International Opium Convention — The Question of Athletics — Washington's Medical Relations — Medical Notes

Editorial from The New England Journal of Medicine — Death of Lord Lister — Provisions of the International Opium Convention — The Question of Athletics — Washington's Medical Relations — Medical Notes

Thanksgiving and the Doctor — The Establishment of Quiet Zones — The New England Epidemics of Smallpox — Second International Opium Conference — Relative Frequency of Tuberculosis Infection — Medical Notes

Thanksgiving and the Doctor — The Establishment of Quiet Zones — The New England Epidemics of Smallpox — Second International Opium Conference — Relative Frequency of Tuberculosis Infection — Medical Notes

Reading for Physicians — Prevention of Abuse of Medical Charity — Advancing Standards of Medical Education — International Opium Conference — Medical Notes

Editorial from The New England Journal of Medicine — Reading for Physicians — Prevention of Abuse of Medical Charity — Advancing Standards of Medical Education — International Opium Conference — Medical Notes

The International Opium Commission

The International Opium Commission proposed by the United States and accepted by Austria-Hungary, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Russia, and Siam convened at Shanghai on the 1st of last February, completed its study of the opium problem throughout the world, and based on that study, issued nine unanimous declarations. The Commission adjourned on February 27th.