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India were subsequently repealed also.
In 1894 the legislation in the Straits
Settlements which provided for the re-
gistration of brothels was also repealed,
I am therefore asked not merely to allow
certain existing laws to remain in oper-
ation but to take the stronger step of
reviving laws which a few years since
were deliberately, after much discussion,
abolished.
6.
In justification of such a course
strong evidence has been laid before me
of the growth of disease and the preva-
lence of other abuses since the Ordi-
nances were abolished, and the opinion
of responsible men on the spot
the mon
both official and unofficial to whom I
should naturally look for information
and guidance on local questions
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mainly if not unanimously to the effect
that