Opium Smoking in London
Several thousand Chinese and Malaj'B, notes the Daily News, visit the port of London every year. It is therefore not surprising to learn— which we do from various quarters — that the practice of opium smoking at the East End is increasing WhenChas. Dickens called attention to the sub* ject in 'Edwin Drood,' inquisitive persons found some difficulty in obtaining ocular evidence that the novelist had not drawn upon his imagination for hie facts. Now there Are seven opium dens within a short distance -of one another, in which every night in the week numbers of Chinese may be seen both smoking And gambling. Some of these miserable creatures aver that they first contracted the pernicious habit in London; and it is also a melancholy fact that in the same places of resort may be 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 in the neighbourhood of the docks ; and that medical journals have suggested that the State cannot afford altogether to ignore this state of things.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 105, 5 April 1888, Page 3
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