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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

514,631 906,665 10,292 620 90,666.5|

522,446.93 15,673,408

558,296.5 22,331,860

360,079 21,604,740-

70,809,293

2,046,119,93

B.E. 2461 (1918 19)

Amount in tamlungs Number of tubes

B.E. 2463 (1919-20) Number of tubes

1,186,847

9,772,470

118,684.7

488,623 5 15,261,153

19,605,362

| 15,224,305

61,050,142

505,705.26%

490,134.05

253,733.413

1,859,885 932

!

Amount in tamlungs

1 480,456 11,535,042 | 15,426,713 148,045.6

547,557.1

449,269,77 17,970,791

179,206.58 10,752,395

£8,165,397

1,900,831.15

NOTE. The Unit of one taminng is also in use in British Malaya (Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States) and Java, where it is designated as a "tanil" 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 momшue 4 grams approximtely. One tamlung is divided into 100 hoons.

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 Percen-

male

tage of Population Chinese

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

Consump-

Tamlungs

tion per

capita in tamlangs

Krung Deb

456,918

81,060

17.74

630,804.08/ 1.38

Ayuthia

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

185,818

15,948

8.58

120,496.10

119,578.55

148,320.84 0.79

0.70

0.50

Nakorn Rajasima

291,195

3,478

1.12

Pitsanuloke

196,601

i 3,013

1.53

Chantaburi

76,552

2,653

3.46

30,453.05 0.10

41,095.26 0.20

44,345.00 0.57

Nakorn Sawan

180,889

5,245

2.89

55,443.99

0.30

Surat

94,002

4,217

4.48

47,062.26€ 0.50

Nakorn Sritamarat

263,158

5,508

2.09

Patani

Puket

Maharat

150,370 3,360

2.23

133,090 25,997 19.53

272,608 3,035 1.11

Bayal

399,636

9.740*

2.86

54,371.03 0.20

51,050.40 0.33

218,535.444 1.64

19,025.14

11,491.35

0.06

0.02

Ubon

458,132

768

0.16

11,210 85

0.02

Udorn

405,644

583

0 21

72,014.071 0.17

Roi Ech

333,958

457

0.13

29,559.56) 0.08

i

4,642,085

206,697

4.45

1,900,831.15

0.40

*

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

few Chinese in the Province of Dayap.

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