CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5] — Page 140

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sanction of government is given to prosti-

•bution at the same time it is to be

:

noticed that the circumstances of Hong Kong are widely different from those of England 75 fer cent

д

the Chinese women in

the colony being prostitutes.

Two questions should be asked

is Have any advantages resulted from

the present System.

Such abreses

ii. Have abuses d wils been the conse

・quence of it, and are inseparable from it.

The object of Contagion's disease laws is. I take it, not to put down prostitution and not, directly at least, to benefit alleviate the condition of the prostitutes but to prevent the community at large from suffering from Siphylitic diseases, and to prevent the spreet of

In Hong Kong

two Kinds

Such diseases Brothels are roughly of

11, Those for foreigners only only

ii, Those for Chinase only.

The prescat Ordinance is supposed to affect

lieve it has one in the f a certai After some

both classes, but as a matter of fact the 136 medical clauses of the ordinance are not applied to the latter class. It is indeed acknowledged that it would be worse them than leseless to attempt to affly

The Chinese women are said to detest compulsory medical Examination worse thang Anything else in the world They consider that it degrade them: The serious answer is the training degraded by becoming brostratee at all,

are more

but here it must be remembered that the feeling

on the subject in China is very

different from what it is in England

In China Prostituation is more or less

nationed recognized

national insti

a

•Fation.

As regards tothels then for Chinese

the Ordinance appears to me to be little use

What is its effect-with

onleg

of

regard to those for foreigners?

to

the Committee Scern to have come the conclusion that it has not checked

the numbers of prostitutes, that the numbers of

licensed as compared

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