CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10] — Page 509

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39. No Keeper of a Registered Brothel shall be liable to

such payment unless the amount thereof shall have been certified under the hand of the Visiting Surgeon to be in accordance with a scale of charges to be from time to time fixed by the Inspector of Hospitals with the approval of the Governor and such certificate shall be evidence of the due making and approval of such scale of charges for the pur- poses of this Ordinance, and of all other facts therein certified.

Medical Examination.

40. The Inmates of all Registered Brothels other than Brothels for the sole use of Chinese shall be liable at all times to Medical Examination by a Visiting Surgeon in such Brothel or at such Hospital as he shall direct : and the Registrar General may order any such inmate or any woman found in a Registered Brothel to be taken to the Lock Hos- pital for examination by a Visiting Surgeon.

41. No Keeper of a Registered Brothel the Inmates of which are not subject to Medical Examination shall admit into such Brothel any foreigner unless an authorized official or by the permission of an authorized official under a penalty of one hundred dollars, and no Keeper of a Registered Brothel whose Inmates are medically inspected shall admit subject to a like peualty into auch Brothel a Chinese male unless by permission of the Registrar General.

42. Where an information on oath is laid before the Registrar General by the Superintendent or an Inspector of Police charging to the effect that the informant has good cause to believe that a woman therein named is a common prostitute, and is resident within the Colony or the waters thereof or if not being so resident has within fourteen days before the laying of the information been within the Colony or the waters thereof for the purpose of prostitution the Registrar General may if he thinks fit issue à notice thereof addressed to such woman which notice the Superintendent or Inspector of Police shall cause to be served on her.

d 43. If the woman on whom such a notice is serve appears herself or by some person on her behalf at th time and place appointed in the notice or at some othe time and place appointed by adjournment, or if she doe not appear and it is shown to the satisfaction of the Regis trar General that the notice was served on her a reasonable time before the time appointed for her appearance or that reasonable notice of such adjournment was given to her (as the case may be); the Registrar General on oath being made before him substantiating the matter of the informa tion to his satisfaction may if be think fit order that the woman be subject to a periodical Modiest Examination by a Visiting Surgeon for any period not exceeding one year for the purpose of ascortaining at the time of each such examination whether she is affected with a Contagious Disease and thereupon she shall be subject to such a periodical Medical Examination and such order in writing shall be a sufficient warrant for a Visiting Surgeon to conduct such examination accordingly,

The Order shall specify the time and place at which the woman shall attend for the first examination.

The Superintendent of Police or an Inspector of Police shall cause a copy of the Order to be served on the woman, The Registrar General may without reference to the fore- going provisions order that any woman convicted under sections 19, 20, 28, 29, 30 and 31 shall be subject to a periodical Medical Examination, and his written order shall bo sufficient authority for a Visiting Surgeon to con- duct such examination accordingly.

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