CRAZE FOR SLIMMING
USE OF DANGEROUS DRUGS.
GIRL’S DEATH IN LONDON.
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7 p.m.) London, April 6. Several recent deaths of girls owing to slimming by the use of drugs of the nitrophenol group caused wholesale chemists to petition the Home Office to place such drugs on the poison list to be supplied only by a doctor’s prescription. Doctors say that apart from the risk of death through an overdose, knowledge of the effect of these remedies is little known. Medical men use the greatest caution in prescribing them.
The death in London recently of Miss Vivian Bates (Biddy) Philcox, formerly of Auckland, as a result of taking drugs for slimming purposes, was inquired into at an inquest in Paddington, London, on February 26. When the inquest was completed on March 17, the coroner, Mr Idris Evans, found that death was due to poisoning, the result of misadventure, and strongly criticized the use of drugs for slimming.
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Southland Times, Issue 22293, 7 April 1934, Page 5
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