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Police

and when desirable to

for

even. Medical Whether Foreign or Chinese

Inspection of the Licensed Houses,

ample. the same

the

are

may be affirmed of

powes for closing all such houses

and inflicting

various other penalties

for ineqularities of any description, and

толе

who

expecially for controlling

women

are not regular inmates of any Licensed houses but who have hitherto

been a principal

Долисе

of contagion.

These Police powers of supervision it is proposed to excercise at

once and do

continuanoly for the protection of the unfortunate Immates

Licensed houses as others

of

view

as well

all

of the same

of Mr No of

claps, and practically the new

Labouchere in his dispatch, No 103

the 24th August 1856, would thus be carried out. Nevertheless, it

was not

proposed, unlefo experience. shewed its

necessity, subject

as a

sanatory precaution, to all women in brothels set apont for and frequented by bhinese only to regular periodical examinations. I may add that the necepity for such excamination is not

so great

in Chinese as in other Brothels because independent

that

of the fact there is no

between those

communication

women and

Foreigners-

| the naval custom of their employers

to send them, when diseased, to the

/ bountry to be cured, and therefore the risk of infection from them here is greatly lefpened even

if foreignno did

is