In the foil many of the Chinese
affected with the
Prisoners are
Disease in a po...
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in a most virulent
virulent form,
and as to the European Prisoners (surely Sailors) nearly all are
affected. The Police, both European
and Native, labour under the Disease in a most virulent form. In the Government Civil Hospital, I have had under my care female prostitutes (picked up by the Police in the Streets and evidently turned out by the Brothel-Keeper for the purpose) suffering from the Disease in the most shocking form I ever beheld. Death at last put an end to their sufferings.
Sanitary and Police Regulations
under the proposed Ordinance would, I am confident, be a great boon to
this Colony, and should, I think, be first in force. I beg respectfully to state that at my
humble suggestion the Acting Attorney-General introduced into the proposed Ordinance the clause referring to the Captains of Merchant Ships, in consequence
of a conversation which I had had in conversation with several of them on the subject. In one instance a Captain had shipped
a seaman, he put to sea, and in a few days returned with the crew totally unable to work the Ship, being fearfully affected with the venereal. During the year 1842, when stationed at Gibraltar, I performed for several months the duty of Civil Surgeon, and in that capacity had every facility.