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Hospital for those diseases in Thongkong has steadily declined,

year by year; - from 188 in 1878

to 136 in 1881.

4.

On the

more

important question of the brother

slavery, which, in

in my opinion,

those Ordinances intensifies, I

am

glad to notice that the reports I referves to in the last paragraph of my despatch M

149 of the 10th of September 1881,- as to chinese girls being purchates for export to the Straits where

forced into brothels and

This

are;

in

fact, mare slaves of m have attracted the attention of

the

the Straits Government, and that

a

Fill to make better provision

" by law

for

the

>

protection of

"females brought into the - "Straits Settlements for immoral "purposes" is now

before the Legislative funcil of Singapore.

That I was

*.

justified in reporting to Your Lordship in September 1881 that

this branch

more

than in

of

the

question was unsatisfactory in Singapore

Hongking, will be seen by the following extracts from the objects laid before the founcil by the Attorney General of the Strait-

and reasons

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