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that I was quite right in such opposition . With a fluctuating "Zopulation, such sours it is impossible to carry out as system: personals registration and it would be verif injudicious to :attempt so vexations, a proceeding

and

d then fail after all. Many of the other provisions of this Ordenanc

are

admirable but it attempts too much and plainly shows its parentagons the offspring of a legislature what then

did not

Et possess sufficient personal acquaintance with the people for whom it was enacting Laws. The subsequent addition

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of Official and non.

Official Members has done auray with

this objection and; should this Ordinance be remitted for reconsideration

it can I think bes substantially

other

improved ._. The only

Ordinance which demands particular

mention from me is

from me is H. 121 for chicking the spread of venereal disease which came into operation

ot the close of the year. This Anactment is I believe the first instance in which an English Legislature has attempted to control the evils arising frond titution and I am firmly

pross

"convinced that no more wise

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