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given that Mr Wodehouse on

and

the 20th October 1877 1

subsequently Mr. Smith on the

19th November 187777

Inspectors to take no present

hold the

old

steps against unlicensed,

brothels.

attached-

See correspondence.

What really stopped

the practice was the disclosures

Miade

at

w

Coroner's inquest held by myself in October 1877, and the finding thereat. It

was simply seen that the

practice could be continued no longer, and Mrhodehouse

tells me that he had

instructions from the Governor

ve bal

verbal or written

It is beyond all doubt

thas

there

was

w

system of

practice in connechów with

niformers, but is

but is there the

least

ground for saying that

there

ever

ivas

a

" Lysten

' by which the Loch stospital

" was used by the keepers of "the Government Luiereed Brothets

I as

a.

means of neeping Chinees

girls in a state of slavery

is the manner indicated

Governor Hameezy, namely,

by

by locking the girls up at the instigation of Licensed

Broker