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be highly inexpedient to attempt any sudden strict application of the Law to inmates of Chinese Brothels, but its application to all such establishments eventually ought not to be lost sight of.
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Admitting that the Chinese Houses are not generally frequented by soldiers and sailors, there nevertheless can be little doubt that their inmates do visit other places and occasionally frequent establishments, and that they supply many of the vagrant class of prostitutes, who haunt the neighborhood of the Barracks, and with whom there was no adequate means of interfering under the previous Ordinance, which is still the only law pending confirmation of the new one.
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A copy of the new Ordinance is enclosed. Independent, however, of the injurious effects to Her Majesty's Forces caused by leaving any source of disease uncontrolled by Medical Inspection, I fear there are many disgusting abuses and immoralities connected with the Chinese Brothels, which public policy and decency require to be reformed. The withdrawal of a License and the summary closing of any Brothel, which can be flagrantly ill-conducted, effected under the enclosed Ordinance, will no doubt give such facilities for reform.
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