The beggar camp which was nearing completion during this month will, it is hoped, remove from the streets the large number of diseased drug addicts who frequent the alley ways of the central and other dis-{rlets. "It ig these persons and not the prosperous and well fed profes slonals who interest this Department, singe these unfortunate persons are a Source of danger to others as well as to themselves. riy no doubt are victims of the events of the last few years and there may well be hoped that 2 percentage of the younger ones will be rehabilitated and become use ful citizens. The other nuisance type of professional beggar docs not 50 realy concern the department, and many of the diseases from which such persons appear to be suffering are either entirely assumed or gross ly exaggerated and. frequently are readily curable conditions.
Whilst the unfavourable conditions existing in this town are reasonably well known to this Department, it seems necessary to deplore the sus gestion that all cornns dealt with by philanthropic societies are deaths duc fo exposure and/or starvation. Owing to high costs and.other dimeulties many of the poorer classes. tend to allow their burial expenses to be taken over by such societies and thus place coffins and oven corpses roughly wrapped in public places Hence a large proportion of the ex-Bosed corpses may be said to have led of natural causes (especially in the case of infants). Nevertheless great satisfaction can be felt at the conditions of this town and the camp can be regarded a an urgent necessity.
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