CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6] — Page 93

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and humanity which have

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you.

to the consideration

this matter, and I mest.

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ardently desire and hope that

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active interference, mag eventually succeed in checking

this most serious and destructive

evil.

With a view to obtain

information.

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as to facts, I

lately requested. Dr. Whitmore Clarke to ascertain for the number of Venereal cases which had occurred in the

Winchester in the COLLESE

of

last year,

gear, and

and you

will perceive

from his letter, here with endosed,

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that the cases treated in this Ship alone amounted to one. third part of the whole crew,.. and it may be inferred there from that a third part of the Seamon generally whe_

come into this Port become. diseased. What an

aggregate

of suffering, and misery, and loss of life, is herein represented

to

be the effect of the prevalence. of this disease amongst the Women engaged in Prostitution & To say nothing of the Inhumanity of allowing

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evil of this. nature and magnitude

remain unrestricted, how much

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