CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923 — Page 320

Raw opium

Selling

Year

Chests

boiled.

price of prepared

Quantity

Bold

Total seizures Raw.

Total seizures prepared.

Total number of

seizures.

opium.

Taels.

Taels.

Taels.

Total cases where convie- tions were obtained.

Estimated Chinese population.

314

Taels per head per

annum.

1912

1113

1915

667

1914

449

$.10.00

1915

340

+5t

1916

365

₫ 11.00

11.50

$12.00

1917

352

*

34233.7 370740

409038 205678

87176 459682

469668

9690.1

172

137

510,000

.73

19499.1

230

163

520,000

.79

21886.7

335

229

535,000

.86

17165

24258.1

326

223

555,000

.84

1918

539

$14.50

639684

42231 27982.3

419

220

580,000

1.10

1919

377

"

457968

20824.5 28262

379

223

605,000

76

1920

225

W

294376.5 19255.6

106176.3

444

250

635,000

.46

+3

1921

2001

11

262805.4 76294.1

17835.1

748

646

675,000

Ø .39

1922

311†

370582 95525.3 17789.79

1455

over

705,000

.52

643

The population of the Colony according to the census of April 1921 was approximately

660,000 but since then there has been a further large influx of Chinese.

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