CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12] — Page 139

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I have had uncor y careful consideration

dir J.1.Swathanbam's desratch "4,227 of the 8th Augu✨

lust, enclosing the Report of the Committee appointed

by you to consider certain suggestione which I lund undo

with reference 16 the prevalence of venereal diseAARO,

and the condition of the innates of brothela in thn

35o 458 Settlements.

2. I have roccived a further wanorded on the

sab mibject from the Struits Jettlemente Association

cat, of which is enclosed, and rocently a deputation

from that Association and from the china Association

represented to me that since the repeal of the Conta-

gious Tissaɛss Ordinances there had been an increase

in the number of cases of venereal disease, and in its

virulence, both in the Straits 36ttlements and in Hong

Kong, and that there was an absence of effective chanko

on brothal slavery. They urged the renewal of the ordi-

man068 under which brothels were racistared, and that

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