Congress passed "An Act gradually to restrict and regulate the sale and use! of opium in the Philippine Islands in whatever form except for medicinal purposes". " Opium within the ing of this act shall embrace every kind, class of character of opium, whether crude, prepared, or refuse, and all nar-ati preparations thereof or therefrom, and all morphine or alkaloid of opium and all prepara which opium, morphine or any alkaloid of opium enters ae an ingredient When the Act of Congress war passed it was estimated that the were 70,000 Chinese and 10,000 Filipinos in the archipelago who were habitues of the pipe. The Manila Times" of January 10, 1908 says, "Even allowing that there are six or seven handred Chinese smoking opium in Manila, the great reduction from the original 9,000 in the metropolis when the official antiopium campaign started is striking and speaks eloquently of the success so far attained. Meanwhile the Chinese who are still using the drag are continuing to give themselves up for treatment and avail themselves of the means the government has placed at their disposal to cure them of the vicious habit.'
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