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Answer No. 4.
20.
Muammadans
65
Brahmans
43
Chhatris
43
Others
41
TOTAL
192
(a) Combatants
181
(c) Authorised camp followers
11
Hindu
42
Muhammadan 9
Smoke ganja. No one
takes charas, which is not
available.
Hindu
42
Muhammadan 9
Smoke ganja. No one
takes char as, which is not
available.
24. Hindu
25
Mussalman 10 Either eat or drink bhang.
25. There are no reliable data under this head.
The force is too small to afford any clear inform-
ation on the subject.
28. I cannot give proportions ; but so far as I
am aware, excessive indulgence is not very com-
mon.
33. There is no public opinion against the
moderate use of ganja among the sepoys.
39. It is popularly supposed that smoking is
less injurious than any other form of consump-
tion.
41. Moderate use is generally believed to have
beneficial effects as follows:—
(a) As a food accessory or digestive.
(b) As affording staying-power under severe
exertion or exposure or to alleviate fatigue.
(c) As a preventive of disease in malarious or
unhealthy tracts.
43. Yes.
45. Habitual moderate use does not, so far as I
am aware, produce any noxious effect.
53, 54 and 55. No.
Answer No. 5.
20. (a) Combatants—all Europeans.
(b) Non-combatants
21
(c) Authorised camp followers
6
None.
24. None.
Answer No. 6.
20. All Hindus.
(a) Combatants
924
(b) Non-combatants
2
(c) Authorised camp followers
58
None. In Gurkha regiments the use of these
drugs in any form is practically unknown.
24. None.
25. Not used at all.
32. None that I know of.
33. They are practically unknown amongst the
Gurkhas in our service. The native officers say
they make men stupid and sleepy, or quarrelsome,
and therefore they think ill of any one who uses
them.
39. Smoking is the most deleterious medium,
as it exerts a quicker and more baneful effect on the
great nervous centres, and also on the bronchi and
lungs.
41. The moderate smoking of charas, particular-
ly in hill districts, is not injurious, as it cheers
and invigorates the system.
42. In moderate use, the effects of indulgence in
charas and bhang are at first harmless, and very
evanescent, producing slight exhilaration of the
spirits, and somewhat pleasing hallucinations; and
the after-effects are less unpleasant than those of
opium. Any further indulgence, however, would
at once produce narcotism. N. B.—Bhang was
used by hakims and baids in India for surgical
operations before the introduction of chloroform.
43. Yes.
44. The moderate use of these drugs is harmless,
refreshing, invigorating. It does not produce
anorxia. It is useful and beneficial in spasmodic
coughs, neuralgia and asthma. The effects are
evanescent. There are no after-effects, but the habit
once acquired, even in moderation, produces a long-
ing or craving.
45. No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No, it brightens the intellect.
The cases of insanity known to me were "acute
mania" cases, produced by immoderate use, and
these drugs were the exciting cause, and the dis-
ease was permanent. Insanes as a rule are very
reticent as to the use of the drug. The insanes
I have noticed did not continue its use to obtain
relief, and it is not my experience that insanity
tends to any indulgence in the use of hemp drugs.
49. Hemp drugs exercise no influence on the
sexual appetite or powers, and are not used as
aphrodisiacs.
51. Not more than any other class of consumers.
53. Yes.
Not personally.
[Questions 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 49, 51 and 53
answered by Medical Officer.]
54. Possibly. I know of no such cases of my
own knowledge.
55. No personal knowledge on this point.
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