RT Journal
T1 JApan, and opium in china
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD April 24
VO LII
IS 17
SP 1338
OP 1339
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02540430034009
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540430034009
AB We have heard much in late years of the efforts of the government of Japan to keep opium out of that country, and it would indeed appear that it is meeting with praiseworthy success in the endeavor. The Japanese do not seem, however, so anxious to prevent the Chinese from suffering from the evil; according to one writer, Mr. John Stuart Thomson,1 who seems to speak by the card, they are flooding China with cheap hypodermic syringes and encouraging the morphin habit in that land while discouraging it in their own. It is reported that they are reducing the number of opiumsmokers in Formosa, but Mr. Thomson says that they do not apparently look with as much concern on the growth of the habit as does the Chinese government, for in one month alone of this year 30,000 new licenses, at 30 sen each, "good for life," were issued