IN SINGAPORE. 
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By this table we. see 200 people are in the daily habit of visiting 
these Opium shops, and that they consume 1144 boons daily, giving 
an average of 3, boons to each individual of pure chandu. 
229 persons frequenting the 4 opium shops consume 
daily, .. .. .. 1,144 hoons. 
62 Opium smokers in the pauper shed, .. 
307 „ 
112 Criminals 
631 „ 
130 Opium smokers at large 
1060 „ 
603 
3,142 
By this we see that 603 Opium smokers consume daily 3142 hoons 
of chandoo and Tinco, or on an average each uses 5j, of a 
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boon of Chandoo and Tinco. From this calculation most carefully 
made I would say that each Opium smoker in Singapore uses 5 1 
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boon of Chandu and Tinco, of which |rd. is Tinco. 
20 Chests each containing 40 halls . . give .. 800 balls 
800 Balls each give 22 taels of Chandu do .. 17,600 taels 
17,600 taels=176,000 chin= 1,760,000 hoons.. 1,760,000 hoons 
20 chests will give 1,760,000 hoons of Chandu and to this quan¬ 
tity add one third for Tinco and Shamshing will make 2,346,666 
hoons of Chandu and Tinco consumed in the month, or 78,222 
hoons consumed daily, dividing which by 5^ boons as the daily ave¬ 
rage allowance of each Opium smoker will give 15, 043 as the num¬ 
ber of habitual Opium smokers in Singapore. 
This number of 15,000 Opium smokers is I conceive much within 
the mark, as I am inclined to think that the smuggling which still 
to some extent exists would make with the Farmers consumption one 
fifth more; formerly smuggling was carried on to a great extent, so 
much so as to deprive the farmer of much of his revenue, and entail 
a loss of nearly % 20,000, yet at that time from 20 a 25 chests 
were used by the Farmer monthly. We have shewn that the gross 
income of the Farmer from pure Chandu, amounts to 24.640 
monthly, but much more is spent by the Opium smoking public who 
pay 8 per cent on that to the retailers of Opium, which will make 
26,611. 20 cts. In addition they pay at least one third on the 
first amount for Tinco and Samshing, the perquisites of the Retailars 
