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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