From 20 to 30 years 5 From 30 to 40 years 19 From 40 to 50 years 11 From 50 to 60 years 7 From 60 to 70 years 1 From 70 to 80 years 1 Unknown age 22 -- Total 66 _Females_— From 10 to 20 years 2 From 20 to 30 years 18 From 30 to 40 years 39 From 40 to 50 years 22 From 50 to 60 years 14 From 60 to 70 years 4 One-third entire number prostitutes, probably from 15 to 50 56 Unknown age 14 --- Total 169 Females are more frequent victims than males, in the proportion of three to one. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that women more often than men are afflicted with diseases of a nervous character, in which narcotic remedies are used sometimes for a long period, and also to the fact that in some instances it is used by them in place of alcoholic stimulants, its effects being less noticeable and degrading, although none the less intoxicating. Both males and females are usually of the higher orders, in point of intellect and culture. In some cases business failure or family trouble has been the incentive for a resort to the use of the drug. In some instances the fact that opium eating had ruined the mental powers of the victim, or caused him to be careless or negligent of his home relations, has led to the business failure, or the sundering of family ties. The majority of patients come from the middle classes, those people who are continually toiling and worrying in the almost ceaseless endeavor to “keep up appearances.” The fact that most opium eaters are married, widow or widower, is probably explainable on the ground that in the majority of instances, the patients among whom it is most common are at just the age when marriage has taken place. In some the habit is contracted before, in others after marriage.