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Enquiry
into the measures
necessary
to
carry
out the provisions of the bontugious
Diseases Ordinance 1867.
2. I lost
mo
time in transmitting to
Nice Admiral Sir Henry Heppel whatever information I could supply, especially extracto hom my despatch to Your Grace, No 350 of the 10th August last, explaining which this Government had
the tens
proposed to Surrender the present site of the livil and Lock Hospitals. I forwarded, also, along with copies of the Ordinance; a report of the Commission of inquiry into the necefpity for including system of regular supervision those brothels which had hitherto been regarded as exclusively fequented by Chinese. All
in the
this information I found
the leommission.
3.
I
in
was
mew
to
increase of expense
"foresaw great increase
extending the sphere of regular periodical Medical Supervision to Chinese brothels, though apparently the inquiries which I had made sutisfied me, personally, that, so for as regarded the supposed
object of the Ordinance.
supposed main
viz. the preservatio of health of the boldiers and sailors of Her Majesty's Service, that defect was either not affected at all,
degree
not appreciable.
0~
only
to a
4. As I had also learned from
Member of the Commission that their inquiries
wvere
maw
CA
sitting
being conducted
on the supparition that only
one counse