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Medical Inspection; in accordance with the Correspondence herewith returned.
The following recommendations
have been unanimously agreed to by the Committee .-
1ct Taking the number of Lourd
erage
forces at 1500 or 1900, (the aver
of last
year being 715 White and
425 black Troops ) and that of the
700, the
average
all
Sea force at boo-
of bust year in Fort being 183;) but, considering that the latter are single Europeans of more migratory habits and frequently return to this Harbor with disease contracted in the Northern Ports, which they spread
in the Town, the proportion of the expense to be borne by the Admiralty and War Department may be fairly
fixed at the same rate for each; and
that this
may
be fixed at one each : - thus leaving
quarter half of the
expense to be defrayed by the Colony,
in consideration of the benefits to be derived by it from the proposed
And
Thors the inspection, to be effectual, should be extended to all Women in Brothels, whether licensed
or Chinese only...
to admit Europeans
the number of these is staited, by the
Registrar General, to be
40 Houses lisensed for Europeans