There is a curious note on the latest West End craze in the current issue of the bulletin of tho Society for the Suppression of tho Opium Trade. "There is n craze," it runs, "for opium smoking ■iji the West, Bud _of:Xondon bv stupiil ■women. Rooms- have-been talfen "i'ili' fashionable hotels for .the purpose;'and' flats: are also , in . use as secret opium .dens. An old Chinaman from Limehous6 was brought up to preparo the opiufn. All the crevices of tho room used are carefully plugged. Girls and women with overstrained nerves have taken !to i.t." »
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2848, 12 August 1916, Page 15
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95Untitled Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2848, 12 August 1916, Page 15
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