Admissions.
Number of Diets Issued.
1873
1874
500 1873 345 1874
1875
134 1875
1876
168 1876
11,219
Average Number of Days Treated.
1873 6,814 1874 2,916 1875 2,730
1876
:
:
19.5 18.6
18.7
14:3
1877
177 1877
3,069 1877
16.6
1878
105
1878
2,212
1878
19.0
1879
129 1879
2,149 1879
13:6
1880
57
1880
1,300 1880
14.7
1881
11
1881
1,330 1881
21.7
1882
99
1882
1,831
1882
15.5*
1883
273
1883
3,451
1883
12.0
1884
325
1884
5,174 1884
13 1
1885
-111
1885
6,161
1885
15.6
1886
401
1886
4,837
1886
12.2
1887
144
1887
2,014 1887
13.9°
1888
66
(1888
1,616
1888
1889
84
1889
1,540
1889
24-47 18-31
1890
K2
1890
1,660 1890
20-0
1891
80
1891
2,041
1891
25-5
1892
65
1892
2,392
1892
36-8
1893
63 1893
1,568
1893
24.8
18949
27
18941
884
1894]
29-2
1895
1890
21014.
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2. In that Colony the main provisions of the C. D. O. were repealed in 1888, leaving only to the Government the right of registration and the inspection of houses of ill fame; but in 1894 (Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance Amendment Bill) this right was withdrawn, and since then there have been no inspection or control exercised beyond what is provided for by the common law.
3. The repeal of these ordinances was in obedience to the course resolved upon in this country and under the peremptory orders of the Colonial Office. But this was done against the protests of the Local Government, of the non-official members of Council, of the officers of Her Majesty's Forces, of the Medical Staff (Civil and Military), and of the general public of the Straits Settlements.
4. The results of the policy thus forced upon the Colony without due allowance for the widely different conditions of life in England and the Far East have been, as was anticipated, most disastrous. But it is only recently that the appalling facts have become fully known through the investigations of a competent and trustworthy local committee of this Association, the result of whose labours I am instructed to lay before
you.
5. The investigation was confined exclusively to Singapore. No attempt was made to include the sister Settlements of Penang and Malacca, but as their conditions are not dissimilar to those existing at Singapore, it may fairly be assumed that the broad facts of the one are applicable to all the Settlements. Nor has it been possible to ascer- tain the proportion of disease in the civil community at large, but the statistics which are available of certain classes, limited though they must necessarily be, are of the most instructive and representative character.
6. First, as regards the Military Forces of the Colony, the following figures show the state of venereal disease among the troops in the Tanglin District of Singapore, under the Contagious Diseases Ordinance and since its repeal:-
Table "A" represents five years under the Act.
Table "B" represents five years since the repeal of the Act.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
No. 18.
GOVERNOR SIR C. B. H. MITCHELL to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
(No. 295.)
(Extract.)
(Received September 28, 1897.)
[Answered by No. 20.]
Government House, Singapore, September 1, 1897.
**
14. The number of cases of venereal disease admitted to the hospitals continues to increase, and I would again express a hope that before long the Colony will be allowed to take measures for dealing with this disease in some effective manner.
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*
*
I have, &c.,
C. B. H. MITCHELL.
TABLE A.
No. of Admissions.
Periol.
Strength Troops.
Total.
Ratio per Mille.
Prim, Syph.
Becy, Syph.
Gonorrhoea.
1884
551
25
5
38
68
123.41
1885
639
13
11
28
52
81-38
1886
673
10
32
+7
69-84
1887
576
31
16
93
161-46
1888
639
25
30
129
184
287-95
Total 5 years 3,078
107
94
243
444
144-81
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
TEC.O. 882
TABLE B.
No. of Admissions,
Period.
Strength Troops,
Total.
Ratio per Mille.
Prim. Syph.
Secy. Syph.
Gonorrhea.
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SIR,
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
No. 19.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS ASSOCIATION to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received November 10, 1897.)
5, Whittington Avenue, E.C., November 8, 1897.
THE discussions which have taken place as to the effects of the repeal of what are known as the Contagious Diseases Acts, and the necessity which has arisen in India for the resumption of precautionary measures, have been followed with great interest by the people of the Straits Settlements.
Daily average detention 5 days.
† Daily average 441. Longest stay 86 days.
Longest detention 102 days.
§ Daily average 4:33 Longest stay 123 days.
Daily average 421. Longest stay 60 days.
| During 5 months.
1892
647
82
41
91
214
330-76
1893
618
65
50
49
164
265.37
1894
748
100
70
92
262
348-93
1895
753
211
101
153
465
617-53
1896
728
134
143
136
413
567-30
Total 5 years 3,494
592
405
521
1,518
434:17
During five years when the C. D. O. was in operation, out of an average of 615.6 men in the Tanglin Barracks there were admissions to hospital for contagious disease averaging 144.28 per mille. During the last five years (protective legislation being
F 2
24245.
1817
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