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Expenses of any woman while in hospital, to be paid by the keeper of the brothel whence such woman shall have been removed.
Prostitutes infecting healthy persons liable to punishment.
Every keeper of a brothel to pay a monthly sum.
Monies collected by way of fees under this Ordinance to go to the formation of a general fund for the purposes of the Ordinance.
Pay of the Colonial Surgeon or other medical officer appointed under this Ordinance.
Keepers of brothels may employ constables specially for their protection, &c.
Such constables to be under the control, &c. of the Superintendent of Police.
A hospital for women to be built. Provisions for renting suitable premises in the meantime until such hospital shall be built.
ORDINANCE No. 12 of 1857.
Venereal Diseases.
labour for any time not exceeding three months; and the expenses which may be incurred in and about the maintenance and treatment of any such prostitute in such hospital shall be a debt due to the Crown, and shall be paid by the keeper of the brothel of which such prostitute shall have been an inmate, or from which she shall have been so removed, and the same in case of non-payment shall be sued for and recovered by the Registrar General.
12. If any prostitute labouring under a venereal disease shall, to the satisfaction of the Chief or Assistant Magistrate, be proved to have infected any person with such disease, such prostitute, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment either in gaol or hospital for a term not exceeding three months, and the keeper of the brothel in which such prostitute shall be found shall in every such case be fined a penalty not exceeding two hundred current dollars.
13. Every keeper of a registered brothel shall pay to the Registrar General or his collector the sum of four current dollars per mensem, which the Registrar General is hereby empowered to demand and collect, and all such sums are to be paid by the Registrar General into the Colonial Treasury.
14. All monies collected under or by virtue of sections 13 and 19 are to be appropriated to the formation of a general fund for the purposes of this Ordinance, out of which a monthly sum (to be fixed by His Excellency in Council) is to be paid to the Colonial Surgeon, or to such other medical officer as may be from time to time appointed for the purposes of this Ordinance, under the provisions of section 7, as his remuneration for performing the duties required or imposed by this Ordinance; and the said Colonial Surgeon, or such other medical officer as aforesaid, is hereby empowered (with the sanction of His Excellency the Governor) to nominate or appoint a deputy or assistant, being a person properly qualified to act for him, in case he shall be at any time incapacitated or unable to perform such duties, or any portion of them.
15. Every keeper of a registered brothel shall be allowed, upon giving notice thereof to the Superintendent of Police, and obtaining his authority, to employ a constable for the protection of, and the preservation of order in such brothel, such constables to be under the control of, and responsible to, and to be paid by, the Superintendent of Police, and to wear a uniform to be chosen for the purpose, but to be solely employed about the protection of the brothel by the keeper of which each of them is employed; and every keeper of a brothel so employing such special constable as aforesaid shall pay quarterly in advance to the Superintendent of Police, a sum sufficient to cover the expenses which may be incurred in payment of the wages of and providing the uniform for such constable, and such sum shall in case of non-payment be sued for and recovered by the Superintendent of Police.
10. A hospital shall be built, or premises in the first instance hired, exclusively for the reception and treatment of women affected with venereal diseases, the cost of renting such premises to be defrayed out of the fund to be raised under sections 13 and 19, and the remainder of the monies which shall from time to time be collected under the said sections, over and above such sums as shall be applied in payment of the