Records of the General Conference of the Protestant Missionaries of China 1890
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In the 2nd Report of tho Asylum 1,500 cases had befen seen since the commencement, of which number 350 were seen the first year. Of 1,350 of these cases, 350 were farmers, 110 artisans, 379 shop-keepers, 82 soldiers, 61 coolies, 32 boatmen. It is exceptional for women and children to smoke ; half of the coolies, boatm^en and yaman attendants use it ; 30 per cent, of adult males are said to be confirmed smokers, 15 per cent. occa-si-«raal smokers ; of coolies, boatmen and retainers of ofl&cials ...from 50 to 70 per cent. During 1880, 1881 and 1882, 2,143 cases Lad been attended to. In the Shanghai hospital during the half-year of 1548 there were 88 opium-smoking patients; in 1849, 374; in 1851, 1,198 j in 1865, 400 ; and every year thereafter between 300 and 400. In the early hospital reports we do not come across such frequignt references to opium-smoking and suicides. The large numbers of the regulated or licensed opium shops in some of the cities are casually mentioned in the Hospital Re- ports.
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