Consumption of Drug Causing Concern
During 1946 there were .560 deaths from all forms of tuberculosis in New Zealand, states the annual- report of the Department of Health. Some 2268 died from cancer. Deaths from apoplexy or cerebral hoemorrhage numbered 1597 and from all forms of influenza, 111. These figures are for Europeans only. The report mentions the high consumption of heroin in New Zealand—nearly five kilograms per million population. This figure' is only exceeded by one other nation, Finland. Consumption increased markedly between 1944 and'l946 and the Department “contacted medical practitioners who appeared to be prescribing the drug with unnecesary frequency. The dangerous potentialities of *heroin cannot be too often stressed, stated the report.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 7, 13 October 1948, Page 4
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115Consumption of Drug Causing Concern Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 7, 13 October 1948, Page 4
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