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Serial

From or to whom

Colony.

No.

Despatch No., Lo.

Date:

Subject

Pago.

From or to whom.

No.

Colony.

Despatch No., &o.

Date.

Subject.

Page.

10

To Governor Sir C.

B. H. Mitchell.

Straits Set- tlements.

245

1895.

Ang. 12

States views on the various points raised in the memo- randum enclosed in No. 6.

13

19

Straits Settlements

Straits Set-

1897.

Nov. 8

42.

Association.

. tlements.

11

Governor Sir C.B.H.

Mitchell.

Ditto

395

Sept. 22 (Received Oct. 18).

Transmits for approval a draft Bill" to Consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Protection of Women and Girls."

14

20

To Governor Sir C. | Straits Set- (B. H. Mitchell tlements.

and the Officer Administering

the Government.

Hong Kong 45

35

1896.

12 To

Governor Sir

Ditto

138

April 15

Q. B. H. Mitchell.

Approves of the introduc- tion of the Bill enclosed in No. 11, but suggests certain amendments.

15-

21

War Office ...

Ceylon

13

Governor Sir C. B. H.

Mitchell.

Ditto

:

518

Nov. 24 (Received Dec. 21).

Transmite Ordinance

No.

15.

XVII., of 1896, consolidat- ing and amending the Law relating to the Protection of Women and Girls, and for the suppression of brothels, with 8

copy shewing the modifications made since the Bill was first Bubmitted to the Secretary of State.

21

1897.

14

China Association... | Hong Kong

May 31

Encloses telegram from the Hong Kong branch urging enforcement of the Con- tagious Diseases Ordinance.

20.

15

Governor Sir Wm.

Robinson.

Ditto

138

16

Ditto

Ditto

Confi- dential.

29.

:

}

22 To War Office

Ditto

June 17

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

गय

Reference :-

RHC.O. 882

1898.

Feb. 18

June 13

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.

Transmita 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 legis- lation had hitherto been contemplated, as the re- turns show that the disease has not increased.

Transmita copy of Nos. 20, 21, and 22, together with C. 8401 and 0.8538; in 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.

remarks,

Transmits, with

Report of Committee ap- pointed to consider as to the measures to be adopted for checking the spread of venereal disease.

Transmita, with remarks, a representation from the Resident Coneral 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

23

To Governor Sir J. West Ridgeway.

Ditto

179

June 17

30.

24 Acting Governor Sir Straits Set-

J.A. Swettenham.

227

tlements.

Ang. 5 (Received Sept. 1).

June 16 (Received (July 19).

June 30 (Received Aug. 7),

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.

Transmite, with remarks, let- ters from the Hong Kong branch of the Association, representing the necessity for reviving regulations for the control of contagious disease.

Reports that the number of cases of venereal diseRTO 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.

17

China Association.......

Ditto

Ang, 30

18

Governor Bir C. B. Straits Set-

H. Mitchell.

295

Sept. 1 tlements. (Extract), (Received Sept. 28).

25

42

High Commissioner Federated

Sir J. A. Swetten-Malay States. dential. ham.

Confi.

6

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