At the Opium Inquiry Committee's meetings, which are being heXl Calcutta, some remarkable revelations have been made farding the abuse of the drug Amongst the Bene alls, the opium vice seems to be of recent origin, and with many of them the habit. starts through the drug being taken medi cinelly, Others take it for the pare pose of alleviating the tediousness of their work; whilst there another class of people who take opium exclusively for purposes intoxication and pleasure, In the course of the evidence, it was stated that the origin of the habit had something to do, with the presence of the Chinese community, [because a larger number of Bengalis nowadays visit China-town th merly. Although statistics—show that there are only eleven Chinese who obtain their supplies. from licensed vendors, it was stated that, there were a large number who got supplies from illicit sources. There ere about thirteen selling dens Chinatown, but there is great diffe culty in shutting up these dens, because n certain quantity of the drug is allowed per person and the dens always menage to conceal any excess amount before the preventivg officers arr Rima, Sept. cessation of some of the of-wells in the Baku district is attributed to the recent earthquake n the Crimea,—Reuter.
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