ocea
real Disease, a delay sioned by the difficulty of devising a system which, without compulsory and periodical examination, without the registration of brothels, and without pres cribing districts, could be really effective in checking the spread of this terrible
disease.
2
The question
been long
long, an
has
and often consi bills have
been
dered and m
many
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been drafted but none have
commended themselves to
Me as
fulfilling the purpose
for which they
In
were
fact without some
designed
form
of personal examination it is difficult to see how in- fection
3.
gard
more
can
be checked.
Regulations with re-
to venereal disease are-
· easy.
to apply to Canton
ments in India where the
troops live apart from the
native races than in Victoria;
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where
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