circumtuncos of such loculity.
The
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drastic method of couplate prohibition
except for indicul purposes und under medicul proscription hus been adopted in many British Colonies and is the ultimate
coul in the roulndor. In Ceylon u system of ro, intration of opium addicts with rutioning of supplios is in force, tim mabor of consumers h.a boon reduced from
24,000 in 1010 to 13,000 in 1920 and the
allorances Uminishod and as the present
gonoration of ajokers !ios out, complete suppression All follow uutomatically. similar system is in foron in "eihuiwi whore perdita are issued only to confiroed smokers by a Government medical officer, and
no fresh porita are boin) (runted,
Mauritius has recently passed
A
frœa a nyateu of registration to one of auppression. Zanzibur, also, whore the practice of opium natin, obtains won, 8038 of the Porsion and Indian rosidante ja
rapidly reducin; ita consu.ption under the
raistration system.
But in localitios whero tuore is a
lure "hinese population and the opius habit is widespread any policy of i:zsodia'e suppression could not be onforced owin; to the nuse with which opium can be amylod, for example, in the coal bunkers of incoming uteumora, puckad uong ordinary :vrch.ndise, concauled in the hollow atous of buboo, on
the