furnish the recreational supply. It is more easy to do, for the one class are in the bulk at some distance from the other. The Inspector of Brothels, too, is at all hours on duty, and after a short experience is able to recognize the Women, so that a strange face would at once be detected, and on detection the Keeper of the house would be, and has been, heavily fined.
I may add that Mr. Caldwell, whose experience, both in the Office I now fill, and of the native character, renders him a high authority in such matters, informs me that he adheres now to the expressed opinion he gave in 1857, viz. that it would be most unadvisable to interfere, by Medical Supervision, with the Brothels for Chinese.
(23rd Clerk & Filing Registrar's Office)
Registrar General's Office 8th April 1867.
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Victoria, Hong Kong. 19th April, 1867.
In compliance with the Memorandum by His Excellency the Governor on C.O. Document No. 911 on the subject of contagious diseases, I have the honor to make the following observations.
The Returns furnished by the Army Medical Department convey a correct impression of the percentage of venereal disease treated in Hospital. Thus it is stated that in 1866 there were
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