they refund to obey the above order
Cexamination
at the time of the Medical Examistin
ow
the 27th March..
I append Statements from Inspectors Hougheel and Grey (both formerly of the Metropolitan Police) which shew that this disobedience was wilful and premeditated.
11.
The Examinations were invariably made by the Colonial or Acting Colonial Surgeon - Europeans.
This Officer for two years less was assisted by the Captain Harbourmaster of the Hospital compet
on one occasion, when this office being absent, a turnkey of the Gaol - James Collins, a Goa-Portuguese
11.-That upon enquiry it was discovered that this inspection was conducted, under circumstances of the most humiliating character, with the aid sometimes of a coloured turnkey, sometimes of a convict.
12.That it was further discovered that the Chinese portion of the force were exempt from the aforesaid inspection
13.
That it was also ascertained that, about 15 months previously, a respectful memorial had been addressed, by the European members of the force, to the Colonial Government of Hongkong complaining of the aforesaid inspection, and petitioning for its abolition, but that no reply thereto had, up to that time, been communicated to the men,
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Patique apointed. The employment of the European convict ceased at the time and for the reasons given in the appended statements of the Acting Colonial Surgeons, Dr Pods.
12. For this there was a special reason - viz: that as the houses licensed under the Contagious Diseases Ordinance for females are not conducted in the same way as those frequented by Europeans the same necessity for special supervision did not exist.
13. - Although no public answer was given by me to the petition in question, yet the men were fully aware that the Examination was intended to be - and actually was - discontinued; whilst, at the same time, the improved arrangements for securing greater
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