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Hospital for those diseases in Thongkong has steadily declined,
year by year; - from 188 in 1878
to 136 in 1881.
4.
On the
more
important question of the brother
slavery, which, in
in my opinion,
those Ordinances intensifies, I
am
glad to notice that the reports I referves to in the last paragraph of my despatch M
149 of the 10th of September 1881,- as to chinese girls being purchates for export to the Straits where
forced into brothels and
This
are;
in
fact, mare slaves of m have attracted the attention of
the
the Straits Government, and that
a
Fill to make better provision
" by law
for
the
>
protection of
"females brought into the - "Straits Settlements for immoral "purposes" is now
before the Legislative funcil of Singapore.
That I was
*.
justified in reporting to Your Lordship in September 1881 that
this branch
more
than in
of
the
question was unsatisfactory in Singapore
Hongking, will be seen by the following extracts from the objects laid before the founcil by the Attorney General of the Strait-
and reasons
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