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real Disease, a delay sioned by the difficulty of devising a system which, without compulsory and periodical examination, without the registration of brothels, and without pres cribing districts, could be really effective in checking the spread of this terrible

disease.

2

The question

been long

long, an

has

and often consi bills have

been

dered and m

many

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been drafted but none have

commended themselves to

Me as

fulfilling the purpose

for which they

In

were

fact without some

designed

form

of personal examination it is difficult to see how in- fection

3.

gard

more

can

be checked.

Regulations with re-

to venereal disease are-

· easy.

to apply to Canton

ments in India where the

troops live apart from the

native races than in Victoria;

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where

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