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ANNEXE V.

TABLE SHOWING AMOUNT OF OPIUM SOLD DURING THE LAST 3 YEARS, BY SIZES OF TUBES.

Sizes of Tubes

Total number of

Year

No 1

No. 2

No 3

No. 4

No. 6

Tubes

Tamlungs

B.E. 2460 (1917-18)

Amount in tamlungs Number of tubes

906,665 10,292 620 90,666.5

514,631

522,446.93 15,673,408

22,331,860

558,296.5

360,079 21,604,740

70,809,203

2,046,119,93

B.E. 2461 (1918 19)

Amount in tamlungs Number of tubes

LF8991*1

9.772,470

118,684.7

488,623 5 15,261,158

19,605,362

15,224,305

61,050,142

505,705.261

490,134.05

253,733.41

1,850,885 931

B.E. 2463 (1919-20)

Number of tubes

Amount in tamlungs

1 480,456 11,535,042 15,426,713 148,015.6

547,557.1

149,269,77) 17,970,791

179,206.58 10,762,395

€8,165,397

1,900,831.15:

NOTE. The Unit of one tamlong is also in use in British Malaya (Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States) and Jaya, where it is designated as a "tamil" or "tael", with a weight of a little over 38 grams. In Siam this weight has been adjusted to correspond to the weight of 10 salungs or 211⁄2 ticals -37.5 grams. In Burma one tola-10 grams approximately. In Formosa 1 momшe=4 grams approximtely. One tamlung is divided into 100 boons.

There is no tube No. 5.

ANNEXE VI.

TABLE I.

SHOWING BY PROVINCES, THE TOTAL MALE POPULATION, THE NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF THE MALE CHINESE POPULATION, AND THE CONSUMPTION OF OPIUM PER CAPITA.

Province

Total male

Population

Chinese

male

tage of Population Chinese

Opium sold in Percen- B.E. 2462 (1919-20).

Consump-

Tamlungs

tion per

capita in tamlungs

Krung Deb

Ayuthia

456,918

090'18

17.74

630,804.08

1.38

336,371

11,068

3.29

195,974.15

0.58

Nakorn Chaisri

171,676

10,654

€.20

Rajburi

235,461 19,913

8.45

Prachinburi

165,818

15,948

8.58

148,320.84

120,496.10

119,578.65 0.50

0.79

0.70

Nakorn Rajasima

291,195

3,478

1.12

30,453.05 1 0.10

Pitsanuloko

196,601

3,013

1.53

Chantaburi

76,552

2,653

3.46

Nakorn Sawan

180,889

5,245

2.69

41,095.263 0.20

11,345.00

55,443.99/ 0.30

0.57

Surat

94,002

4,217

4.48

47,062.261 0.50

Nakorn Sritamarat

*263,158

5,508

2.09

54,371,03 0.20

Patani

150,370

3,360

2.23

Pukot

133,090

25,997

19.53

Mabarat

272,608

3,035

1.11

51,050.40

218,535.44 1.64

19.025.14

0.33

0.06

Bayab

399,636

9,740* 2.86

11,491.35

0.02

Ubon

458,138

768

0.16

11,210 85

0.02

Udorn

405,644-

583

021

72.014.07

0.17

Roi Lah

983,958

457

0.13

29,559,561 0.08

4,642,085

206,697

4.45

$1,900,831.15:

0.40

few Chinese in the Province of Bayap.

*Of this figure the great majority are Shans. There are comparatively

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