Berial
Despatch
Serial
From or to whom.
Colony.
No.
Despatch No., &c.
Date.
Subject.
Page.
From or to whom.
Colony,
Date.
No.
No., &o.
Subject.
Page.
10
To Governor Sir C.
B. H. Mitchell.
Straits Set- tlements.
245
1895.
Aug. 12
States views on the various points raised in the memo- randum enclosed in No. 6.
13
19
Straits Settlements
Association.
Straits Set- tlements.
1897.
Nov. 8
42
11 Governor SirC.B.H.
Mitchell.
Ditto
395
Sept. 22 (Received Oct. 18).
Transmita for approval a draft Bill to Consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Protection of Women and Girls."
14
1898.
20
To Governor Sir C.
B. H. Mitchell
Straits Set- tlements.
35
Feb. 18
and the Officer
Administering
the Government.
Hong Kong
45
1896.
12
To
Governor Sir
Ditto
138
April 15
C. B. H. Mitchell.
13
Governor Sir C. B. H.
Mitchell.
Ditto
518
Nov. 24
***
(Received
Dec. 21).
1897.
14
China Association... Hong Kong
May 31
15
Governor Sir Wm.
Robinson.
Ditto
138
June 16 (Received July 19).
Approves of the introduc- tion of the Bill enclosed in No. 11, but suggests certain amendments.
No. XVII., of 1896, consolidat- ing and amending the Law relating to the Protection of Women and Girls, and for the suppression of brothels, with
copy shewing the modifications made since the Bill was firat submitted to the Secretary of State.
Transmits Ordinance
8
16
Ditto
Ditto
Confi- dential,
June 30 (Received Aug. 7).
17
China Association...
Ditto
Aug. 30
15-
21
War Office...
Ceylon
June 13
•
131
15.
20-
Encloses telegram from the Hong Kong branch urging enforcement of the Con- tagious Diseases Ordinance.
Transmits Ordinance No. 9, of 1897, consolidating and amerding the laws relating to the protection of women and girls.
Calls attention to the great increase in the number of brothels since the abolition of the registration system; recommends that the sys- tem be revived, and that power be given to restrict brothels to certain areas.
Transmits, with remarks, let- ters from the Hong Kong brunch of the Association, representing the necessity for reviving regulations for the control of contagious disease.
Reports that the number of cases of venereal disease admitted to the hospitals continues to increase, and expresses a hope that be- fore long the Colony may be allowed to take measures for dealing with the disease.
18 Governor Sir C. R. Straits Set- 295
H. Mitchell.
Sept. 1 tlements. (Extract). (Received Sept. 28).
22
To War Office
Ditto
June 17
Aug. 5 (Received Sept. 1).
Sept. 8 (Received Oct. 4).
Calls attention to the increase of venereal disease in the Straits, and suggests the re-enactment of the Conta- gious Diseases Ordinances.
Cannot sanction re-introduc- tion of system of com. pulsory examination of women or registration; but suggests measures for checking the spread of disease and the increase of brothels.
Transmits copy of a letter to the General Officer Com- manding in Ceylon as to the question of taking special steps for dealing with venereal disease, and asks that the Governor may be informed in order that
he may co-operate with the General Officer Command- ing in the measures sug- gested.
Points out, in reply to No. 21, that any legislation in Ceylon on the lines of the new Cantonment Rules in India could only be applied to military towns, and states that no special legls- lation had hitherto been contemplated, as the re- turns show that the disease has not increased.
Transmits copy of Nos. 20, 21, and 22, together with 0.8401 and 0.8538; is not aware that any necessity exists in Ceylon for similar legislation to that suggested in Hong Kong and the Straits for checking the spread of venereal disease.
Transmits, with remarks, Report of Committee ap- pointed to consider as to the measures to be adopted for checking the spread of venereal disease.
Transmits, with remarks, a representation from the Resident Ceneral of the Federated Malay States, urging the desirability of ameliorating the wretched condition of the Chinese public prostitutes in the States.
48.
49
50
51
51
79
21
23 To Governor Sir J.
Ditto
179
June 17
West Ridgeway.
29.
30.
24 Acting Governor Sir Straits Set-
J.A. Swettenham.
227
tlements.
25 High Commissioner Federated
Confi-
42
Sir J. A. Swetten- Malay States. dential.
ham.
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