HE concluding article summarizing the annual report of the Commissioner of Police to the Municipal Council follows Situation in Extra-Settlement Roads Area in the Western District Gambling, opium trafficking and smoking, and other kinds of vice were openly carried out in the outside roads area with the result that tne place has become the haunt of professional criminals and notorious loafers whose activities are a menace to Jaw abiding residents in that district, At the end of the year these were in this area 24 gambling dens, 200 Hwa Wei Lottery dens,"42 opium hongs and 100 opium smoking dens.
Refugees—The number of refugees and that of the camps in which they were accommodated was gradually reduced during 1999. In "January there were in the Settlement 08 obscene books, 49 persons wore pro-secured and' sentenced by. "the Shanghai First Special District Court fo fines ranging from $10 to $150. camps housing a total of 49,244 refugees, but at the end of the year there were only 29 camps and 31,602 refugees, In addition to some 3,998 living in alleyways and vacant houses.
Strikes—There were 90 strikes in the Settlement in 1939 as against 21 in 1938, The number of hands affect ed and number of working days lost were 24,628 and 100,040 respectively fas compared with 6149 and 27,614 1938, The concerns affected are classified as follows:
2 Dally necessities 4 Povdeco 3
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