is simply appalling. Of the one hundred flog Sank mates in China one-tenth may with safety be put down as addicted to the habit, When the statistics of the opium districts are obtained, the number will no doubt be found to be much larger, but ten million slaves are enough for one land! Knowing that the Chinese are constitutionally inaccurate, and that at the Dis-pens aries the question is simply asked each patient, Do you smoke opium?" and his answer "Yes" or io" is recorded, I applied to a physician whose hospital books are kept by a foreigner, in the hope of obtaining statistics ina measure trustworthy. His answer was: "Our records are not near correct, as we record what we can got from each man, except when it is entirely unmistakeable that the patient is an opium smoker. In the city iny opinion is that ut men over twenty years of age, a light estimate would be to say that one out of every three smokes opium, the amount increasing with the of the party in a regular ascending seal It isa vice that prevails among the poor as well as among the rich; in the country as well asin the city. From the Governor. General in the Viceregal capital to the lowest constable in his thatched hut, it pervades all ranks and conditions of the people. Of Szechuan, the Texas of Chin with a population reputed to be equal that of the United States, it is said that rybody smokes." Even little boys chew the castaway pods of the poppy, thus in childhood imbibing a taste for the drug.
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