has taken place in the numbers admitted this year.
The present Lock Hospital, put up a hundred beds and I do not think now the act has been
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and perform their ablutions regularly, without inconvenience. I think the accommodation required for working ... so long and under the improvements that have been made in it's management lately, that so large an accommodation will ever be required in the future.
The principal cause of the diminution in numbers has been the inspection of the brothels regularly, a definite number being laid down as to the accommodation each affords, which prevents overcrowding and dirt, and the women having more room are now able to keep themselves clean and the Lock accommodation may be safely reduced to fifty for the future. The only danger of increase of numbers admitted now is an increase of trade with the Coast Ports or in the event of War, as it is many of the worst cases come down from the coast.
I have (signed) Ph. B.C. Ayres, Colonial Surgeon.
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