Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1913 — 500,000 Opium Suicides a Year. [ARTICLE]

500,000 Opium Suicides a Year.

Cleveland, Ohio.—-“ Opium causes half a million tulcides a year," declared the Rev. A S. Gregg, of the International Reform Bureau, artth reference to the opium conference. The statement is based on letters god reporta from Dr. E. W. Thwlng, special secretary of the reform bureau, sent to China by the bureau to attend the opium conference. Dr. Tthwtng states that he has obtained statistics from the provinces of Kuelchau, Tonnan, Szo Chuan and Annwei, with a total population of 680,000, In which he says the proportion of the population using opium is from 20 to 80 per cent and the amount of money spent for the drug is 8200,000,000 a year.