In no city in Europe is security to life and property better guarded than in this, or, indeed, in any other important city in China.

It is a truism to say that no people are more law-abiding than the Chinese; "they appear," says Medhurst, "to maintain order as if by common consent, independent of all surveillance." Our Consul in Chungking is Mr.E.H.Fraser, an accomplished Chinese scholar, who fills a difficult post with rare tact and complete success.
Consul Fraser estimates the population of Chungking at 200,000; the Chinese, he says, have a record of 35,000 families within the walls.

Of this number from forty to fifty per cent.

of all men, and from four to five per cent.

of all women, indulge in the opium pipe.