§ Colonel DAYasked the Home Secretary how much opium was purchased by factories in Great Britain during the year 1924; how much morphia; how much heroin; how much codeine was manufactured by the manufacturers in Great Britain during 1924; and haw much of each of these narcotics was sent abroad?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSThe compilation of the statistics for 1924 is not yet completed, and I am able at the present moment to give only the figures of manufacture asked for which must be regarded as provisional. They are as follows:
Ozs. Morphine … … … 99,400 Heroin … … … 16,700 Codeine … … … 153,300