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Return of the Opium Smokers (license holders)
in Formosa according to the general statistics pub-
lished by the Sotoku Fu.
Year.
Number of Number of
License
deaths
Number who
abandoned
Total
holders
smoking
1900
1903
165,752 7,323 1901 156,266 7,298 1902 143,842 13,940
132,903
244
7,642
721
8,640
3,077
17,017
8,125
1,713
9,838
1904 137,953
8,065
2,480
10,545
1905 130,476 7,727
4,705
12,432
1906
121,338
1907
113,165
The average consumption per smoker was in 1905.
95 momme per diem or about 2.20 kin per annum. At
this rate the total consumption of opium in 1905 was
248,963 kin, but the average consumption per smoker
appears to increase annually as the smokers become
numerically less.
Opium smokers in 1905 classified according to
age and sex. (exclusive of Chinese subjects numbering
877 of both sexes).
Taken from Census return for 1905 published in
December
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