The highly unbalanced sex ratio in Singapore…

The highly unbalanced sex ratio in Singapore contributes to a rather lawless, frontier atmosphere that the government seems helpless to combat.

Little revenue is available to expand the tiny police force, which struggles to keep order amid a continuous influx of immigrants, often from the fringes of Asian society.

This tide of immigration is totally uncontrolled because Singapore's businessmen, desperate for unskilled laborers, oppose restriction on free immigration as vehemently as they resist any restraint on free trade.

Public health services are almost nonexistent, and cholera, malnutrition, smallpox, and opium use take a heavy toll in the severely overcrowded working-class areas.