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* former. The quantity of oil taken is often enormous, Opium 
4 is also the favourite poison for infanticide. Generally a small 
q quantity is smeared on the nippleand the child allowed to 
suck. For murder opium is rarely used, During the last ten 
years only one.case has been observed in Bengal and one in 
the Punjab. 
_. In Bengal the percentage of poisoning Ss opium in 1886. 81, 
was 35:9 in 270 viscera examined; in 1881-82, 22°6 in 210; 
in 1882-83, 25:0 in 210; in the remaining ae months of 
1883, 19°7 in 126; in 1884, 22°5 in 217; in 1885, 21°3 in 
234 ; in 1886, 19°5 in 266; in 1887, 24:0 in 233. 
In the Punjab the percentage was in 1879, 1°8 in 162 
viscera examined ; in 1880, 0°5 in 194; in 1881, nl in 186; in 
82, 1:9 in 291 ;-in 1888, nil in 194; in 1884, nil in 200; in 
85, nil in 234; in 1886, 0°35 in 272; in 1887, nil in 228, - 
In the North-West Provinces and Oudh it is impossible 
an examination of the Annual Reports to ascertain the 
ber of human viscera examined during any one year, all 
e references being classed as “cases,”’ but for the reasons 
ready given, we may assume in the case of opium, that. the 
detections were made in human viscera. The record shows in 
879, 18 detections in 156 cases; in 1880, 18 in 173; in 1881, 
in 158 ; in 1882, 19 in 156 ; in 1883, 12:9 in 177; in 1884, 
“2 in 182; in 1885, 10°7 in (186 ; in 1886, 8-2 in 170; in 
1887, 11°6 in 171. 
In the Madras Chiemnicat Examiner’s reports we find under 
the héad of “Human Cases, Class A, Viscera examined,” that 
1882 opium was detected in 7 out of 152 cases; in 1883, in 9 
t of 123 cases; in 1884, in 4 out of 85 cases ; in 1885, in 6* 
t of 81 cases; in 1886; in 2 out of 84 cases ; pe in 1887, in 
out of 76 cases. * Under the head of “ especie Aitempts to 
ison” no detections were made in the articles examined ~ 
1882 and ‘oo in 1884, one detection was made in . 50 
