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why intelligent Constables under the supervision of their own officers shouth not be able to perform the duties given to so called Inspectors of

muisances, Market, and Brothels.

78.

I have shown such duties very efficiently performed under various police systems, any of which would compare very favorably

with

79.

ouro.

The Superintendent of Police, at Portsmouth stated before the Commission appointed to enquire into the worthing of the "Contagious Diseases act that he effectively enforced

the law with two

Constables detached from regular duty

but Kept under strict surveillance

in fact subjected to discipline.

Owing to the Antagonism

80.

that this act created in

England, its provisions

more di

were much

difficult to enforce there than here; and yet

II venture to

assert that the Low is more

rigielly enforced in Portsmeetth than it is in Hougsting.

81.

As

bearing

marmei

In suppert of this apertion

on the

very imperfect of its enforcement here, I beg to refer to the Report of the Colonial Surgeon for 1969 in which that efficer stated ") " admit that the working of

the

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