To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuina Dairy News."
Sir,—Are the police or Municipal authorities powerless to eject the numerous beggars from the Settlement? During the past months they have apparently descended in force in some parts of town to become not only a nuisance but a danger to foreigners.
A sight of these sickly, limbless er deformed unfortunates is disgusting to the most hardened individual and what danger they constitute to a delicate woman who is suddenly confronted and accosted by them is well know by many anxious persons.
During the last weeks I have noted that with great regularity certain roads are visited by beggars. Those who are not able to walk are brought in a wheelbarrow, deposited at their station and there left to craw] or to roll their vermin and sore-covered bodies while pursuing their calling until the wheel-barrow takes them away in the evening.
Surely the policy should have sufficient authority to banish these undesirables from the foreign Settlement.
I am, ete., Shanghai, July 15.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.