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11. The Committee considered a draft Report regarding the question of venereal disease at Singapore. Certain amendments to the draft Report were accepted, and it was decided that, at the next Meeting, the Committee should have hefore them a re-draft of the first portion of the Report and should consider the rest of the Report.
III. It was decided that the Fifth Meeting of the Committee should be held at the Colonial Office on Thursday, the 7th May, at 11 a.m.
16th April, 1923.
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No. 20.
MINUTES OF THE FIFTH MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL HYGIENE, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THURSDAY THE 7TH LAY, 1925, at 11 a.m.
I.
Present:
THE HON. W. ORMSBY-GORE, M.P. (Chairman).
DR. F. J. H. COUTTS, C.B.
SIR GILBERT GRINDLE, K.C.M.G., C.B.
JOHN H. HARRIS, ESQ.
S. W. HARRIS, Esq., C.B., C.V.O.
COLONEL D. HARVEY, C.M.G., C.B.E.
DR. A. E. HORN, C.M.G.
A. B. MACLACHLAN, ESQ.
MRS. C. NEVILLE ROLFE, 0.B.E.
SURGEON-COMMANDER T. B. SHAW, R.N.
E. B. TURNER, ESQ., F.R.C.S.
DR. J. DOUGLAS WHITE.
MISS ALISON NEILANS (vice Lady Astor, M.P.).
G. H. CREASY, Esq. (Secretary).
THE Minutes* of the Fourth Meeting of the Committee were approved.
II. The Committee gave further consideration to the draft Report regarding
the question of venereal disease at Singapore.
III. It was decided that the Sixth Meeting of the Committee should be held
at the Colonial Office on Monday, the 18th May, at 11.30 a.m.
7th May, 1925.
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No. 21.
MINUTES OF THE SIXTH MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL HYGIENE, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON MONDAY THE 18TH MAY, 1925, AT 10.30 A.M.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. ORMSBY-GORE, M.P. (Chairman).
LADY ASTOR, M.P.
DR. F. J. H. COUTTS, C.B.
SIR GILBERT GRINDLE, K.C.M.G., C.B.
JOHN H. HARRIS, ESQ.
COLONEL D. HARVEY, C.M.G, C.B.E.
DR. A. E. HORN, C.M.G.
A. B. MACLACHLAN, ESQ.
MRS. C. NEVILLE ROLFE, O.B.E.
SURGEON-COMMANDER T. B. SHAW, R.N.
E. B. TURNER, ESQ., F.R.C.S.
DR. J. DOUGLAS WHITE.
G. II. CREASY, Esq. (Secretary).
I. THE Committee gave further consideration to the draft Report regarding the question of venereal disease at Singapore. It was decided that Mrs. Neville
* No. 19.
Rolfe, Dr. Douglas White and the Secretary should form a Sub-Committee to re-draft that portion of the Report which had not yet been approved.
II. It was decided that the Seventh Meeting of the Committee should be held at the Colonial Office on Wednesday the 10th June, at 11 a.m.
18th May, 1925.
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No. 22.
MINUTES OF THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COM- MITTEE ON SOCIAL HYGIENE, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON WEDNESDAY, THE 10TH JUNE, 1925, AT 11 A.M.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. Ormsby-GORE, M.P. (Chairman).
LADY ASTOR, M.P.
DR. F. J. H. COUTTS, C.B.
SIR GILBERT GRINDLE, K.C.M.G., C.B.
JOHN H. HARRIS, ESQ.
S. W. HARRIS, Esq., C.B., C.V.O.
COLONEL D. HARVEY, C.M.G., C.B.E.
DR. A. E. HORN, C.M.G.
A. B. MACLACHLAN, ESQ.
MRS. C. NEVILLE ROLFE, O.B.E.
SURGEON-COMMANDER T. B. SHAW, R.N..
E. B. TURNER, Esq., F.R.C.S.
DR. J. DOUGLAS WHITE.
G. H. CREASY, Esq. (Secretary).
I. THE Minutes* of the Fifth and Sixth Meetings of the Committee were
approved.
II. The Committee approved the draft Report regarding the question of venereal disease at Singapore.
10th June, 1925.
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SIR,
No. 23.
THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 1st December, 1925.) (Confidential.)
Government House, Singapore, 29th October, 1925. WITH reference to your Confidential despatch dated 16th July, 1925, I have the honour to inform you that the report of the Advisory Committee on Social Hygiene was published on the 24th August, 1925.
It will be convenient if I describe the measures already taken or proposed under the headings adopted in the Summary of the Recommendations of the Committee.
Social Measures,
(a) (i) Immigration of female with male Chinese.
The system of examination and control of female immigration at Singapore and Penang is in itself a direct encouragement of female immigration.
A system has gradually been built up by the Chinese Protectorate under which all young women and girls who seem to require protection are sent to Malaya with the knowledge that they will be produced before a Chinese Protectorate Officer who will ensure that they do not fall into wrong hands. Under this system inexperi- enced and young women now come unaccompanied from China to join their husbands and relatives.
The Census figures for the Island of Singapore in 1911 and 1921 show the effect of this system. In 1911 there were 161,648 Chinese males and 57,929 Chinese females.
* Nos. 20 and 21. 1 See Cind. 2501.
28013/25: not printed.