In Street, In Houses,
Number of
Bers in Kak
Hospita
14.--Table showing the Number of unlicensed PROSTITUTES deprehended under Ordinance No. 10
of 1867, during the Year 180.
Total,.
No. of Women.
Convicted. Discharged.
Found Diseased.
8 90
3
21
8 10
38
24
9
13
These women were taken from 8 Houses, of which 7 were declared to be Brothels under the Ordinance.
Appendix A.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ORDINANCE.
KETURN of the NUMBER of PROSTITUTES, brought under the Provisions of the above Ordinance, during the Year 1870.
Sumber
kalel zo
Hospital on
Number
examine and
fund Aga
Number whe suitnod
voluntarily.
Certificate of
Visiting Surgeon,*
fun Disease,
Number
against whom
it your neces:bry
to proccel by
In rmation
before the Registrar Genital
Tutol Number
brought under the ProvisionsS of the
Crdianico.
NUMBER DUCHA RUND FROM HOSPITAL,
Kuraber discharged free fren Diese who still flow keir Demer pizapira,
Number who
Total Number discharged.
hevo returned
to their friends, or emigrated.
85
700
15,590
16,296
16
16,312
716
14
780
* For Diseases vide Table C.
Appendix B
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ORDINANCE.
RETURN for the Year 870.
Total No.
of Feinales
admitie
TOTAL NUMISER OP MEN DISEASED* ADMITTED TO
Xaval into Lock
Military Hospital. Hospital. Hospital. | Hospital.
Police
Merchant Seamen aud Civi! Fugls.
Total No. of Men Diseased.
Soldiers. Scamen Police.
AVRIAGE NUMBER OF MEN IN
Average GARRISON AND FORT, (Per month). No. of Per-
Meu in centage Mer- Port sud of Men chant Garrison,; Disensed, Seaben.
per month.
722
77
2151
$4
2743
048
1,395
781
618
18,037 21,48£
3.02
EXAMINATION.
Average No. of days per
nonth on which exami-
nations were held.
Total No. brought by
Pokee, or attended
for examination.
Total No. admitted
to Hospital.
Total No. rejected,
not diseased.
*For Discases vide Table D.
Appendix .
LOCK HOSPITAL.)
CON FAGIOUS DISEASES ORDINANCE.
RETURN of WOMEN examined, and treated in Hospital, during the Year 1870,
DISEASE.
Primary Syphilis, uncomplicated, Gonorrhoea,
Jo.,
Do., and P. Syphilis, combined, -
P, and Secondary do, do.,
24 15,312 722 15,596 Gonorrhoea and S. da., do.,
Primary and Secondary Syphilis and Gonorrhoea..
TOTAL,
HOSPITAL.
30
0819
DISEASE.
Primary Syphilis, uncomplicated,
Gonorrhoea,
ditto,
Gonorrhea and P. Syphilis, combined,
P. and Secondary
...
do.,
Gonorrhoea, and S. do,,
do.,
Primary and Secondary Syphilis and Gonorrhoea, Secondary Syphilis, uncomplicated, Syphilitic Orehitis,
ditto,
TOTAL,
Appendix D.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT.
RETORN for the Year 1870.
MILITARY Hos- PITAL,
NAVAL HOS- PITAL.
POLICE HOs- PITAL.
306
MERCHANT SEA- MEN AND CIVIL HOSPITALS.
16
87
17
86
86
88
60
105
25
30
2
13
X
3
11
9
777
218
84
274
Appendix E.
H. M.'s HospITAL SHIP Melville,
HONGKONG, December 28th, 1870.
REMARKS.
† of the 215 Admissions into the Naval Hospital. 97 cases of Disease were not contracted in longsong.
1 of the Admissions into the M'chant Seamen and Civil Hospitals were not contracted in Hougsong.
My Dear Sir,-As you are about to leave this Colony for a time, I would beg to address a few words to you on the sub- ject of the working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, carried out under your inspection. During the years 1849-50 and 1851, I was Surgeon of the Reynard, Sloop of War on the China Station, and though unfortunately I am not in possession of my Journal for that vessel, I have a vivid remembrance of the sufferings of the crew from syphilitic disease in Hongkong, On every occasion when the men had leave on shore, a large proportion of them became affected with the disease, which showed itself in the form both of hand Chanere, and large Phagaedenia sores. Secondary symptoms were also of frequent occurrence, often requiring the patients to be invalided and sent home. The altered state of things at the present time is very striking, During the year and nine months that I have had charge of the Hospital, I have not seen a case of regular Hunterian Chancre I should say contracted in Hongkong, and only a few soft sores which healed readily. Judging from my own experience, that Syphilis has all but disappeared from the Colony, and I have no hesitation moreover in attributing this success to your particular method of examination, which I have repeatedly witnessed. The instruments used by you are admirably adapted for bringing into view the parts, including the Os and Cervix Ute, very quickly, thoroughly and without the least pain to the female. Could a similar system of examination be established in the Treaty Ports of China and Japan, a great boon would indeed be conferred on the Naval Squadron serving in these waters.
Believe me to be, Dear Sir,
Sincerely Yours,
(Signed,)
ROBERT POTTINGER.
DISCHARGED,
ཚོ;:;
98
100
05
95
511 641 510
320
122 115
115
41
722 763 729
1
780
Hospital on
1st January, 1971.
DR. MURRAY.
Colonial Sury:on, Hongkong.
Appendix F.
Statistics of Venereal in H. M's 75th Regiment from 21st December, 1868, till 21st December, 1870.
1. Average Strength during the above-named periód, 428.5.
Hongkong, 21st December, 1870.
2. Different forms of Venereal and the number of cases of each between the above-named dates :---
Chancre, Hard. Chanere, Soft.
Secondary
5
12
Syphilis.
10
Gonorrhea.
Total.
39
66
33
The forms of Secondaries were very mild, amenable to treatment, and left no ign of permanent injury.
The above figures speak for themselves, and show the great gain which the enforcement of the Contagious Diseases Act has been to the Government in preserving the health of the men of the Regiment, and I may add that during an experience of 16 years as an Army Medical Officer in all climates, I have not seen a similar inmity. To me it is the more striking as I can look back on the prevalence, and terrible severity of the disease which existed in this Colony in 1857, when “Hongkong Disense," was a well known bye-word. At times for an entire month there has not been a man reported as suffering, from any form of Venereal, thus attesting the thorough manner in which the duties in connection with the Contagious Diseases Act have been carried out, and the efficacy of legislation against this "sconege of humanity seen in a Colony like Hongkong whose ever shifting population, native and foreign, must render success unusually difficult.
(Signed,)
W. RAMSAY, P. R. C. S. Lag
Surgeon, 75th Regiment.
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