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public physicians; and only to those who were considered. by these physicians to have fallen into the opium habit the purchase and use of opium chandoo and licences to that effect were granted.
The opium administration in Taiwan has acted since the possession of the island on the principle of gradual decrease, In 1900 when the number of those specially per- mitted to smoke opium was at its highest, it was 169,064;
The ar- but at the end of 1920 it had fallen to 49,031. age number of deaths among opium-smokers during the last ten years was about 4,000; but as the number of deaths will annually decrease with the gradual decrease of the number of smokers, it is believed that at the present rate it will require about fifteen years more for the total extinction of those who have been licensed to smoke opium.
As the powder opium mentioned in the Taiwan Opium Law corresponds to the medicinal opium of the Opium Law of Japan Proper, medical practitioners, pharmacists, druggists. and medicine-manufacturers only may possess, sell, or trans fer it without Government permission.
Opium chandoo and powder opium being Taiwan Govern- mant monopolies, it is forbidden to import or manufacture them or to sell, transfer, or possess them without special permission, Offenders against the prohibition are severely punished. The same restriction applies to preparations possessing the same efficacy as opium chandoo or powder opium
CONTROL OF OPIUM IN CHOSEN (Korea),
The system of control of opium in Chasen is based on almost the same principles as those in force in Japan Proper. Opium cultivation requires the permission of the authorities; the whole of the opium produced must be de- livered to the Government not later than a fixed day every year, and to manufacturers of morphine and other opium al- kaloids and their derivatives only such quantities are sold by the Government as are necessary as materials for the mars.
By these means .ufacture of the above-mentioned medicines,
the illegal use and secret exportation of opium are pre- vented.
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