2.E.
Mr. Clauson to see
Dr. Drummond Shiels
(on return)
Seen
T.D.S.
29.11.30
20
Sir W. Peel s/o
28/X/30
24
Is inclined to think that the retaining of
laws which provide for the prosecution of house?
keepers is unsound, and that the proper course is to
increase facilities for treatment of disease.
21
Sir W. Peel s/o
28/X/30
? 70428/9/Gen
Agrees with points raised in (14a) which will
receive his personal attention.
I have delayed this to obtain the file on
which it was minuted that the department should be
cleaned and on which it was suggested ? by Dr.
Drummond Shiels that the cadet who examined
candidates for prostitution should do so without an
interpreter. That file is still in circulation.
(20) See Section 12 of Ordinance 4 of 1897.
It is
a queer ordinance, as a result of amendment, because
though under Section 13 the mere keeping of a brothel
is illegal, it rests with the police or the S.C.A.
and whether Section 13 is used and Section 12 or similar
sections accept the existence of brothels. It seems
doubtful whether in practice Section 12 will be much
used, and the point seems of little importance
beside the main question of
(1)
toleration, vs. abolition.
As regards corruption there are two kinds
Where you bribe to get an irregular thing done
(2) Where you have to pay commission before a
regular thing is done.
The trouble with (2) is that it is so universal
in the East that it is done, like tipping in London,
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even under staring prohibit notices. A virtuous
minor official refrains from (1) but it is
an