Children do not use it. — As far
3. as my experience which is set forth below goes I have not (with the exception hereafter mentioned) observed any bad effect of opium either physical or moral on those with whom I have come in contact.
4. Consumers chiefly smoke opium, some may take it in the form of pills. I do not think any take it in the form of medicine.
5. In answer to this question I beg to state that from all I learn I believe a great majority of the Chinese inhabitants of this Colony smoke opium, and yet with all my experience as Registrar of the Court, Acting Attorney General and Puisne Judge, in which latter capacity I see more than one hundred Chinese every week either as parties or witnesses, I have met with only three or four men who could be called opium smokers, that is men who bore traces of the effect of the habit on their faces or appearance.
Since I have been in Hongkong I have employed generally 10 men servants or Coolies. I am told...