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Show MANY PUBLIC BEQUESTS PROVIDED IN CRANE WILL NEW STORK, Oct. 9. Increase of deaths here from sleeping drugs, use of which, it Is said, has been acquired b many persons since the advent of prohibition, had led Health Commissioner Commis-sioner Copeland to order an investigation investiga-tion of sales of such drugs. Additional Addition-al restrictions may be placed on their Laale, he said. The investigation was ordered because be-cause of a statement by Chief Medical i Examiner Norrla regarding the ln-1 crease in deaths attributed to thlsj cause He said that alcoholic addicts,, finding themselves nervous and sleepless sleep-less In many Instances, where they have been unable to purchase liquor I for the customary' "nightcap" before retiring and the "eye-opener" on arls- ' Ing, had resorted to other artificial and dangerous ways of wooing sleep. The desired relief, he said, was ob- talned through the use of the nerve-MUleting nerve-MUleting effects of certain drugs. Dr. Copeland. in Instructions to the bureau of foods and drugs to begin an investigation, Immediately, refer-' red to most of the drugs about uhii hi Complaint has been made officially, as "treachcerous somnifacients,' 15 grains of one of which, he said, were suffl-clent suffl-clent to cause death. He admitted; that fatalities from the use of these drugs were "altogether too frequent." j Dr. Morris declared that deaths from sleep-producing drugs occurred i In hospitals and In what formerly were sanitorlums for treatment of alcoholism. al-coholism. Deaths from such causes i also had been recorded as suicides, he wild. Sale of such drujfs, he added.! should be governed by the same strict regulations as those government the I sale of poisons- |