Nanking, Mar. 10.
'A total of 14,880 opium addicts have been given treatment at the Nanking Opium clinic since its estab-Ushment two years ago, according to Dr. Wang Tsu-hsiang, Director of the Nanking Health Oflice. Of these, 1 456. addicts have been completely Jeured, while 394 still are under treatment. The ratio of men and women addicts is four to one, and that between those who voluntarily applied for treatment and those who were arrested is one to thirty. The majority fof addicts reported that they took to smoking before 1924.
The expenses already defrayed for the work total $109,000—Kuo Min,
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