Enclosure 4.
Calculations as to prevalence of Opium smoking in Hongkong...
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Assuming a month of 30.41 days it follows from Tableghat, as 88.22 taels of dross opium are smoked in divans per mensen a weight 1,012.44 taels of dross opium.is smoked in divans per dien.
On the same assumptions, as 19,487.392 taels of prepared opium are oked in divans per mensen, a weight of 607.936 taels is smoked per dien..
Again, on the same assumptions, as 27,701.23 taels of prepared opium
he smoked in the Colony (including the New Territories) outside divans
er densen, a weight of 910.925 taels is smoked per diem.
According to the Census returns of 1906 the Chinese population of
e Colony is as follows:-
Males over 15 years
Total Males
195,541
224,236
Females over 15 years
Total Females
66.844
95,567
Grand Total (exclusive of New Territory)
319,803
The portion of the New Territory not included
in this census, possessed in 1901 a total
population of
85,011
Therefore, the Grand Total of Population for the Colony and the Territories =
319,803 + 85,011 = 404,814 and the total of males and males over 15 years of age in the Colony (excluding the New Territories r which figures are not available) is 195,541 + 66,844 = 262,395.
Taking, therefore, the grand total of the population of the Colony d the New Territories and assuring that (a) a coolie smokes 2 pots of taels of dross opium, costing 22 cents per diem : (b) a smoker of Zepared opium consumes
pots of *042 qaels of prepared opium, costing
34 cents
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