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and supervision were responsible for the scandals
discovered. He insisted on the continuance of the
registration system. He stated "One of the
objections now raised to the Hong Kong system is that
the houses are licensed to conduct a business which
is contrary to the law of England and consequently
of the Colony
We have to face the
undoubted fact that it would be practically
impossible to enforce that law against the Chinese
community of Hong Kong. Are we then to ignore the
existence of these houses, to shut our eyes to the
methods by which the Chinese too often keeps up
the supply of their inmates and to leave these women
to undergo practical slavery without an endeavour to
ameliorate their condition? The answer
must continue to be that
we cannot shrink
from this duty and that the performance of it
requires that a much stricter and more direct control
shall be kept over these houses than is required
or would be possible in an English community"
It would be necessary that all these houses should
be registered such as common lodging houses are in
England, certificates of registration being issued instead of licences if that word is thought objection-
able. A fee on registration should be paid by the keepers."
10. In 1893 the Secretary of State suddenly wrote "I am of opinion that this system of registra-
tion and inspection of brothels should no longer be
maintained.
The system is clearly contrary to the
recognised