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Medical Inspection; in accordance with the Correspondence herewith returned.

The following recommendations

have been unanimously agreed to by the Committee .-

1ct Taking the number of Lourd

erage

forces at 1500 or 1900, (the aver

of last

year being 715 White and

425 black Troops ) and that of the

700, the

average

all

Sea force at boo-

of bust year in Fort being 183;) but, considering that the latter are single Europeans of more migratory habits and frequently return to this Harbor with disease contracted in the Northern Ports, which they spread

in the Town, the proportion of the expense to be borne by the Admiralty and War Department may be fairly

fixed at the same rate for each; and

that this

may

be fixed at one each : - thus leaving

quarter half of the

expense to be defrayed by the Colony,

in consideration of the benefits to be derived by it from the proposed

And

Thors the inspection, to be effectual, should be extended to all Women in Brothels, whether licensed

or Chinese only...

to admit Europeans

the number of these is staited, by the

Registrar General, to be

40 Houses lisensed for Europeans