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to submit to medical Examination. Of nearly who have been examined have been diseased. These washerwomen and many of the others come from those the half from Canton or Macao, and if they do not care to submit to examination when it is proved that they can are common prostitutes carrying within the colony they spread disease. They are seldom natives of Hongkong. Sometime ago a large Chinese deputation waited on the Administrator (Mr. March) and among other things, they complained of the great number of "illy" brothels, into which their servants were decoyed, and they asked for their early suppression. On consultation afterwards with several of the leading Chinese as to the legal power of declaring brothels unlicensed when the evidence justifies it; and ordering all proved "illy" prostitutes for medical Examination and detention in hospital, if found diseased. It is right to say that the medical Examination as a deterrent measure is regarded from a sanitary point of view.
(16) I am quite satisfied that the Chinese feel that the medical Examination and segregation are the best methods of suppressing the "illy" brothels, and their concomitant evils, namely the seduction of their sons and female servants. It is officially recorded by Mr. Wei Yuk, late member of the Council and Justice of the Peace that the attendance at the Lock Hospital for medical Examination shows that the women are not averse to it - for they could object to a Native Brother if they had much objection to the Examination and it is the best means of shutting up such places, he recommended a rigid exercise of