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India were subsequently repealed also.

In 1894 the legislation in the Straits

Settlements which provided for the re-

gistration of brothels was also repealed,

I am therefore asked not merely to allow

certain existing laws to remain in oper-

ation but to take the stronger step of

reviving laws which a few years since

were deliberately, after much discussion,

abolished.

6.

In justification of such a course

strong evidence has been laid before me

of the growth of disease and the preva-

lence of other abuses since the Ordi-

nances were abolished, and the opinion

of responsible men on the spot

the mon

both official and unofficial to whom I

should naturally look for information

and guidance on local questions

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mainly if not unanimously to the effect

that