CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6] — Page 397

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of the Ordinance, in which hept

women reside, but where wither extra

Chance

women are manitamed for comers, or are sent out for if required. So long

as these houses

confined themselves to simply

receiving

a

Circle

of

wen knoww.

to themselves, I let them alone

but I always found that (with some exceptions) they gradually grew more and more disorderly

and hose unclined to admit

promiscuously all who went

there

Sonce

کرو

these houses because

the greatest kunssances, leproar, fights and unseemly rioting went on to

all hours of the right,

right, and if there

were any respectable neighbours, they were continually annoyed by having their doors huooked at by hustake.

by intoxicated persons, who became

violent and abusive, when woh

admitted.

Au

Ich will be stated that this was

affair for

the Jokic and the

Magistrates hot for wel

that it was.

I grant

در

But these houses were also centres

of infection. A friend of rime, hoar out of the Colony whom I right

describe as a man about town Fold

me that he had been infected in very

onl

of

them! and I know that her

Experience

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