who become slave to it and the
-number I believe to be
very
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ruin themselves but they do not hurt those around them. I have
seen very large crowds in Hongkong,
at the jubilee, the races and
without
other festivals, they all disperse
Any
trouble whatever. I
Consider there is little Crime
very
in Hong Kong Among the Chinese
and whereas I am not able to
trace any crime to the use of opium. I have known of cases of manslaughter Committed by Europeans when more or less
intoxicated.
I therefore see no reason
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interfere with the trade in and Consumption of opium further than
is necessary to raise a revenue from it as done in the case
of spirits and tobacco. Mr Gretten the head of the opium department in Saigon who appears
to have paid great attention to the question informed me that as far as he had observed he could find no ill effects from moderate smoking of opium
where it was used, but he believed that smoking dross opium or inferior preparations made from dross opium
was
harmful.
this is a question
which the attention of medical
men might be called.
how betrayed
Supreme
Experience cont
"Hong Kong. 18 Dec"