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USE OF DRUGS SEVERAL RECENT DEATHS PETITION TO HOME OFFICE (United PreßS Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 7th April, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, Oth April. Several recent deaths of girls owing to slimming by use of drugs of the iiitro-phcnol group have caused wholesale chemists to petition the Home Office to place such drugs on the poison list, and to he supplied only by a doctor's prescription. Doctors sav that apart from the risk of death through overdose, the knowledge of tlm effect of these remedies is little known and medicos use the greatest caution in prescribing them.
At the inquest in London last March Miss Pliilcox, formerly of New Zealand (lie Paddington Coroner returned a verdict that death was due to nitroplienol poisoning the result of misadventure. He gave a serious warning against the use of drugs for slimming. Evidence showed that Miss Pliilcox, under medical advice, took intro-phenol capsules and finding they were not having the desired effect took an increased dose without consulting the doctor.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 7 April 1934, Page 7
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