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the recall it on vaccination of the Path Eulycet, and of numerous Communications with Pire Enermusat officers and others who have had the thorough practical experience
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4. It appears that the main
object sought by the framers of the former contagious Diseases Ordinances was twofold:
(a) to check the spread of Venereal disease, specially among Europeans, the English Army, and in particular among Soldiers and Sailors.
(b) to put down the (so-called) or "brothel houses," or houses of ill fame first near New Ashyle.
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5. With regard to these points, practical experience appears to have shown:
(1) that the medical examination of women is extremely distasteful to the Chinese; that it has never been applied to the women in brothels exclusively devoted to Chinese; and that the class of brothels at Hongkong are practically distinct; that is, the brothels frequented by Chinese are not used by Europeans, and vice versa. Upon this fact depends the possibility of ... respecting