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remains therefore the same as it arginally

in 1854, and is therefore briefly and clearly stated, though they Subsequently

that

add that they consider the inspection

to be

effective

of a

certain

Subuntes,

should include all the fermates

dap

within the

city

and

suburbs, they evidently cedrucate that general inspection merely because they Suppose it to be expential for the preservation of the health of the Crews of repels of War

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16. If the Lords of the Admiralty aware that in the peculiar cucumstances of this Colony, there appears to be infinitesimal risk of injury to the sailors of the fleet from inmates of Chinese Brothels who constitute, as I have shewn,

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five-sixths of the

women-

whom the

- Admiralty Department think's it requisite to subject to actual Inspection, it is doubtful whether they would pres for

system requiring

an

establishment with

250 beds instead of 80, although the

latter would

probably be the extreme number necessary to effect

neapary to effect their object

even under exceptional circumstances.

17.

I

also infer from the War Office: Communication of the 17th December, enclosed in the same despatch from

Your Grace, that the Meilitary Authorities only look to the question of whether the Ordinance is likely to secure the full

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"benefit desired for the Naval and "Mailitary forces" and that they decline