CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10] — Page 438

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residences of the "protected" are not converted into sly brothels. I should therefore make it

compulsory to register

the protectors

the women

as under

their protection, and to enter into

-

undertaking that the residences

of their women should not be

used

a❤

ely brothels. This Register would be quite private. The Inspectors know all these women,

and there would be no

found I believe in

protectors to

difficulty

the

getting

give any guarantee. As it is I have had to call

the attention of several persons to reports about the "protected","

and with marked

the

effect. registration.

A

registration of these houses as

Commons

hardly

lodging

do here.

houses would

(d) Harbour prostitution. There is

a

want felt in connection with

on board ships

women

who

under the

до

• guise of washerwomen.

The law provides against out door

on shore, or in junto

prostitution

or boats in the harbour but there

is

nothing to interfere with

women who

до

on board ships.

Many of these are prostitutes who pretending to be washerwomen accomodate sailors on board and

are under no

the bringing

control. Sauggest

in a section like

in

the following-

"

Every

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