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revenue and the obligation to make up the deficit?
Do people of European race contract the opium habit in any numbers? If not, why not? And what makes Asiatics more liable to contract the habit?
How are opium consumers led to use the drug? Do they usually or often take it in the first instance to allay physical pain? Is opium, within your knowledge, a prophylactic against fever, or rheumatism, or malaria? Or is it so regarded commonly by any Asiatic race with which you are conversant?
Do opium consumers themselves usually desire to get free of the opium habit?
Is there among any Asiatic race in your Colony a feeling of hostility against England for allowing opium to be exported from India? If so, how does that feeling display itself?
Have you any other remark to make in regard to opium consumption among the people around you?
SPECIAL TO SINGAPORE AND PENANG WITNESSES.
Please state how far opium consumption is common among the Native States around the Colony?
Do the rulers of those States discourage its use? or do they raise revenue from it? What is the public or general opinion of the Native States regarding the drug, its use or abuse, and its effects on the consumers and on the people at large?
N.B.
It is desired that gentlemen who kindly undertake to
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ROYAL COMMISSION ON OPIUM.
351
(13)
(14)
(15)
)16)
(17)
(18)
Starts
revenue and the obligation to make up the deficit?
Do people of European race contract the opium habit in any numbers? If not, why not?. And what makes Asiatics more liable to contract the habit?
How are opium consumers led to use the drug? Do they usually or often take it in the first instance to allay physical pain? Is opium, within your
knowledge, a prophylactic against fever, or rheumatism, or malaria? Or is it so regarded commonly by any Asiatic race with which you are
conversant?
Do opium consumers themselves usually desire to get free of the opium habit?
Is there among any Asiatic race in your Colony
a feeling of hostility against England for allowing opium to be exported from India? If so, how does that feeling display itself ?
Have you any other remark to make in regard to
opium consumption among the people around you?
SPECIAL TO SINGAPORE AND PENANG WITNESSES.
Please state how far opium consumption is
common among the Native States around the Colony?
Do the rulers of those States discourage its use? or
do they raise revenue from it? What is the public
or general opinion of the Native Statesregarding the
drug, ita use or abuse, and its effects on the
consumers and on the people at large?
N.B.
It is
desired that gentlemen who kindly undertake
to
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