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'Distributed to the Council Official No. : C. 329. M. 200. 1932. XI. and the Members of the League.] [0 . C. 1410.J Geneva, March22nd, 1932, LEAGUE O F N A T I O N S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON TRAFFIC IN OPIUM AND OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS Seminary of Annual Reports of Governments on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs for the Years 1929 and 1930 I. Summary of Annual Reports. II. Synoptic Statistical Tables. Series of League of Nations Publications XI. OPIUM AND OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS 1932. XI. 3. TABLE OF CONTEXTS. Page I n tr o d u c tio n .................................................................................................................................................................... 5 first Part.— S u m m a ry o f A n n u a l R e p o r t s ......................................................................................................... 9 Second P a rt.—Synoptic Statistical Tables : I, Synoptic Table showing the Production of Raw Opium during the Years 1926-1930 86 II. Synoptic Table showing the Raw Opium Exports from the Principal Producing Countries 1926-1930 88 III. Synoptic Table showing the Quantities of Raw Opium utilised for the Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs 1926-1930 ....................................................................................... 90 IV. Synoptic Table showing the Quantities of Raw Opium utilised for the Manufacture of Prepared Opium 1926-1930 92 V. Synoptic Table showing the Production of Coca Leaves 1926-1930 .................... 94 VI. Synoptic Table showing the Available Quantity of Coca Leaves and the Quantity utilised in Manufacture during the Years 1926-1930 and the Stock at the end of the Years 1929 and 1930 ...................................................................... 96 VII. Synoptic Table showing the Manufacture and Conversion of Morphine, the Manufacture of Diacetylmorphine and of Cocaine during 1929 and 1930 in the Manufacturing Countries ............................................................................... 98 VIII. Synoptic Table showing the Exports of Morphine, Diacetylmorphine and Cocair.e from the Manufacturing and Non-manufacturing Countries during the Years 1929 and 1930 .................................................................................................................. 100 IX. Synoptic Table showing the Imports of Morphine, Diacetylmorphine and Cocaine during 1929 and 1930 in the Countries indicated in the T a b l e ............................... 102 X-A. Table showing the Rate of Consumption of Morphine in 1930 of the Countries indicated in the Table and the Consumption for Different Geographical G ro u p s ............................................................................................................................... 104 X-B. Table showing the Rate of Consumption of Diacetylmorphine in 1930 of the Countries indicated in the Table and the Consumption for Different Geographical G r o u p s ..........................................................................................................105 X-C, Table showing the Rate of Consumption of Cocaine in 1930 of the Countries indi­ cated in the Table and the Consumption for Different Geographical Groups. 106 XI. Synoptic Table showing the Manufacture of Prepared Opium 1921-1930................. 108 XU. Synoptic Table showing the Consumption of Prepared Opium 1921-1930 .... 110 XIII. Synoptic Table showing the Number of Registered or Licensed Smokers 1921-1930 112 XIV. Synoptic Table showing, for the Period 1921-1930, the Percentage of Net Revenue obtained from Prepared Opium in Relation to the Total Revenue of the C ountry........................................................................................................................... 114 ' 8 (F.) 825 (A.) 8/32.— Imp. Réunies, Chambéry, — 5 — SUMMARY OF ANNUAL REPORTS FROM GOVERNMENTS O N THE TRAFFIC IN OPIUM AND OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS FOR THE YEARS 1929 AND 1930. INTRODUCTION. 1. The years 1929 and 1930 mark a transitory period as regards the method of presenting the summaries of the annual reports on the traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs. Up to 1929, the form and contents of the annual reports and, consequently, of the summary of annual reports were based upon the questionnaire adopted by the Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs on April 26th, 1922, and approved by the Council on May 16th, 1922.1 In accordance with the revised questionnaire—the text of which was adopted by the Advisory Committee on February 14th, 1930, and approved by the Council on May 14th, 1930,3 and which was established for the purpose of simplifying the task of Governments, avoiding the necessity for them to include in their annual reports the statistics which they supply to the Permanent Central Opium Board— the Secretariat requests from Governments information which is principally of a non-statistical character except in regard to seizures, prepared opium, raw opium and coca leaves (as regards the two last- mentioned, only the information concerning the cultivated area is requested). A great number of countries had already in 1929 established their annual reports on the basis of the revised questionnaire, and the maJority of them have done so for 1930. 2. On February 5th, 1931, during its fourteenth session, the Advisory Committee adopted the following suggestion contained in the report of the Sub-Committee on the Organisation of the Work of the Committee : The Sub-Committee concluded that it was not desirable that the Secretariat should attempt to produce a summary of the annual reports for the year 1929 before the end of this year, but suggests that the possibility of including a brief summary of the more important reports in the summary to be presented to the spring session of the Committee next year should be considered by the Secretariat. ” In accordance with this decision, the Secretariat submits to the Committee in the present document a summary of annual reports covering the years 1929 and 1930. During the same session, the Advisory Committee, on the basis of the report of the Sub- Committee quoted above,3 decided that, subJect to the approval of the Assembly, in the future the annual reports of a great number of colonies and territories enumerated in a list annexed to its report to the Council should not be distributed to the Committee and to Governments, but th a t the Secretariat should, in its summary of annual reports, pay more attention than in the past to these reports. On September 23rd, 1931, the Assembly, adopting the report of its Fifth Committee, approved this suggestion of the Advisory Committee. 1 The Assembly further decided that the annual reports of Governments on the traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs should no more be distributed in extenso except to the Advisory Committee, and that the printed summary of annual reports should alone be distributed both to the Advisory Committee and to all Governments.4 The summary of annual reports for 1930 has been compiled taking into consideration the above-mentioned decisions ; it should be mentioned, however, that the annual reports of certain colonies and territories did not contain information of sufficient importance to warrant their inclusion in the present summary. 3. On February 14th, 1930, during its thirteenth session, the Advisory Committee, when adopting the report of the Sub-Committee appointed to consider items 10, 11 and 14 of the agenda,5 gave the Secretariat general instructions in regard to the compilation of the statistical Part of the summary of annual reports, as follows : As regards the summary of annual reports, prepared each year by the Secretariat, it is proposed that this document should no longer contain statistical tables, except as regards prepared opium and possibly seizures (amount seized and method of disposal), but that the Secretariat should extract from the statistical tables issued by the Central Board, and use in summarising each report, such statistical information as might seem of special importance.” ‘ | ee document O.C.23(2). document O.C.23 (4) (docum°CtU? ent °-c -1375, annexed as Appendix 7 to the report to the Council on the work of the fourteenth session, the disbT ’r 6nt A.6593L V ,g e^ . (<See" also^he memorandum by the Secretariat on the question of discontinuing „ ,h, wort th, thirteenth ent C-138.M.51.1930.XI (O.C.1171(l)). — 6 — The Secretariat has further had to take into consideration the decision of the Advisory Committee contained in the following passage of the report to the Council on the work of the twelfth session r1 “ After an exhaustive discussion, the Committee noted that its rights and duties would be in 110 way restricted by the creation of the Central Board Nevertheless, by the fact of the new body having entered upon its duties, the Committee will be relieved of a large part of its technical work, more particularly the detailed examination of the different statistics. “ The Committee will continue to examine those statistics . but the Committee’s examination will be restricted to what it may consider necessary for the purposes of its work. It will thus be possible in future to avoid any overlapping between the work of the two bodies.” In order to enable the Advisory Committee to continue the examination of the statistics to the extent it may consider necessary for the purposes of its work, and to follow, on the basis of these figures, the development of the problems which occupy the Committee without having to examine in detail the different

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