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Registration of Brothels and their inmates in this Colony is based on other than sanitary grounds alone.
(9.)
I have shown in reports to the Registrar General that the clear explanation is that when one woman left a brothel another would be brought from the country, kidnapped or drugged, and made to answer to the name of the one who had left. It was obviously impossible for the Inspectors to remember the faces of so many women, but now each woman has her photograph duly registered at the Registrar General's office, and if the Inspector has any doubt as to the identity of the women, he can refer to the photograph. This gives tremendous power in the prevention of kidnapping and brothel slavery. Whilst the constant Police supervision prevents any woman from being kept in the houses who have not been examined before the Registrar General. Indeed, it was found necessary to adopt the system of photography for the purpose of identification to make sure that they had been examined as to their liberty before being registered - for it was found that when a wrong woman is in the house he asks for her photograph and identifies her.
Again, no child between the ages of 8 and 15 is allowed to be in a registered brothel, whether native or foreign, and as will appear from a report which I furnished in 1882 (p. 206). "Sly or unregistered brothels are the places where innocent women and young girls are fraudulently taken to and debauched - and where kidnapped women are...