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and interrogating the inmates would be able to obtain reliable
information as to diseased women, for the following reasons:-
1. The Chinese when they are ill have a strong objection to consult any body other than a Chinese Doctor; in this
they differ from the inhabitants of Ceylon and India where
Lady Doctors have been employed, in that the natives of these
places will come for treatment by European Doctors, whereas the
Chinese will not
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2. These prostitutes when they are suffering from
Primary Syphilis do not know that they are diseased, they look
upon a primary chancre in the same light as they would look
upon a sore on their finger, they have no knowledge of the
constitutional trouble which will follow this sore, hence they
would not complain of it, very often they are ignorant even of
its presence.
Our experience has been that they have no objection
to examination by medical men and when taken to hospital, although
frightened at first, from their innate aversion to the foreigner,
after a few hours stay they have no objection to remaining,
indeed they appear quite contented.
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