1. 1926. Report of the Departmental Committee on Morphine and Heroin Addiction 11–11. London Sir Humphrey Rolleston was President of the Royal College of Physicians at the time and a well-known committee-man and writer on medical topics. See, for instance, his entry in theDictionary of national biography, and obituaries inMedical press and circular,212(1944), 223–224;St. Bartholomew's Hospital journal,48(1944–45), 190–191;St. George's Hospital gazette,34(1934–35), 23–24;British medical journal,2(1944), 452–454, 483;Lancet,2(1944), 487–488; andTimes, 25 September 1944.
2. The tenor of press comment can be gauged from reactions to the Billie Carleton case in 1918–19, when a popular West End actress died supposedly of cocaine poisoning, actually of an overdose of veronal. Similar reactions were evoked by the Freda Kempton affair of 1922, involving a ‘night club dancer’ and a cocaine overdose. See, for instance, Daily mail 14, 16, 17, 18, 21, 27 December 1918; Daily express, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 21 March 1922.
3. Musto , D. 1973. The American disease. Origins of narcotic control 54–68. Yale 121–150.
4. OPIUM AS A TRANQUILIZER