'Since the enforcement of the regulations governing the registration of rug addiels on July 1, more than 3,500 persons have registered with the Opium Suppression Department of the Bureau' of Public Safety the Shanghai "City Government, according to Mr. Tai Li-tsong, head of the department. Of this number, 600 have been cured of the habit and discharged from the clinics, Mr, Tal reports that most of the registered addiety are of the middle or poor class. Those who have not yet applied for-registration have to do so within this month, since the compulsory registration ' measure will be enforced as from October 1. when unregistered: addicts will fined according to law and will be compelled to register. After October, special investigations will be carried out by: officers of the Bureau and information will be solicited from the public with a view to locating unregistered addicts. All. persons who, have been cured but who relapse into the habit will be sen-fenced to death,
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