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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

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13 ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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months the

average was kept higher by the residence of

Some distressed Seamen

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Police. To my last years Report I beg respectfully to refer, in fact I can do no better than copy Verbatim the.

contents therein contained - l regret that I can say nothing in favour of this Force, that there are some good men er amongst them is true but that the majority

are bad is still...

truer. Why it is that some. Discipline is not established

or endeavoured to be I cannot

Say - During the past year the admission into stospital. have been rather numerous.... and more particularly amongst the Indians than whom a more

- dirty, filthy and noisier set I

have

consider

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never seen and this I

to the want of

owing

Discipline and authority- the latter is respected so long

you are. present - An Indian Police Constable when admitted into Hospital brings no change! of linen or clothes of any description with him besides. those on his person and which as for as the under linen is concerned, cannot be equalled

in dirt or filth, when it is changed I cannot

I cannot tell, for clean linen on a Black Policeman whilst in Hospital I have

never seen - of this I have frequently spoken, but still no have been taken to remedy. stepes the wil complained of-

се maintain that were Health Inspection allowed I have