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2. Answers by Director & the Po Leung Kuk officials
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Yes, by Chinese, Malay, and other Asiatic races.
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Of the adult males, about one fourth of Chinese, one fifth of Malay, and one in one hundredth of other Asiatic races are consumers.
Yes, they consume more or less to a small extent. None.
3. I observe the consumers to be miserable, weak, lazy, dirty, and despicable. Yes, the same, with distinctions between different races, but distinctions between consumers who are rich or poor; for instance, the consumers who are rich are observed to be not so miserable and objectionable as those who are poor.
4. They smoke; few eat a little, and few drink a decoction of opium; the effect of each I cannot distinguish.
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7. Yes, a great majority, and a small proportion are moderate consumers.
Not quite correct tone as far as I know.
A proportion
Yes, the effect of their opium habit makes them unpunctual and inattentive. Examples: - An employé