OPIUM SMOKING IN LONDON
Several thousand Chinese and Malays, notes the " Daily News," visit the port of London every year. It is therefore not surprising to learn— which we do from various quarlere — that the practice of opium smoking at the E iat End is increasing "When Charles Dickens called attention to the subject m " Edwin Drood,'' inquisitive persona found some difficulty m obtaining ocular evidence that the novelist had not drawn npen his imagination for his facts. Now there are seven opium dens within a short distance of one another, m which every night m the week numbers of Chinese may be seen both emoking and gambling. Some of these miserable creatures aver that they first contracted the pernicious habit m London; and it is alao a melancholy fact that m the same places of resort may bs found many English women of the lowest class. It is not surprising that the attention of medical men, as well as philanthropists, has been directed to the increasing prevalence of the vice m the neighborhood of the docks ; and that medical journals have suggested that the State caDnot afford altogether to ignore this gtate of things.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1801, 28 March 1888, Page 3
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195OPIUM SMOKING IN LONDON Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1801, 28 March 1888, Page 3
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