The habit of opium smoking. is still very extensive among the nese population and there has been Little improvement during the past few years. Addiction among eigners is very rare. The majo of the opium addicts in the Chine population come from the working classes and it is noteworthy that out of the total of 19,853 persons arrest. ed in 1932, over 5,000, or nearly 25 Por cent., were charged with some narcotic offence and-wers mostly a The opium sold in Shanghai comes from Yunnan and Szechuen, smuggled down in unlimited quantities by river steamers. Although there is extensive smuggling on the river, considerable consignments of opium have been periodically landed at
Settlement and smuggled throug! Private wharves in the Intern to wroos beyond the jurisdiction of 1 he inieipal Council, im_ in small quantities were continually being seized in captures being almost a daily occurrence, Indian opium was not obtainable in the Settlement and foreign opium was definitely less in evidence, and what little there was came from Persia and Dairen, Opium is not grown in or anywhere near the Settlement,
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