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Medical &amination of common

prostitutes; the only difference being that the Registrar Connal makes the order instead of the Justice of the Prace (see Ord: 10 of 1867 sees: 444 and 445) (2.) The difference however in the systems of prostitution here, and in the United

Kingdom makes the operation of the compulsory powers of medical Examination given by the

law as

(3)

different

As inc

can well imagine.

Brothels are an institution of

China - " They

were

the

indigenous in China

of

" Centuries before

present natives

of Cerope " emerged from Barbarism" (see Report of Hongkong 6. D.0. Commission of 1879 page 3 ; also Mr stent's paper published in that report page 55 - Brothels too have been licensed in China since time immemorial,

and hence when in the interests of liberty and health it became

the necessary for

Government

Government of Hongkong to interpose in 1857 by legislation it accepted the chinese form system of prostitution by recognising while devising

means

for

this

proper

the Brothers

control -

Comse were not

were not wanting that the

Objections of comse

Governoment might be said to be registering.

ir

licensing

aw

indictable

offence,

but the

urgent necessity of dealing with the subject

consideration pasamount, and the

was a

Government whilst

in

registering

conferred

them Brothels and Brothel keepers no immunity

from any

action to which they

liable before.

were

criminally

the

tho

(4.) In Lord Kimberley's despatch July 26th

1881 C. 3093 of 1881 page 57 the history of introduction of legislation is traced, and this fordship pointin, that the secretary of State in 1856 "having regard

to the

unhappy

circumstances

necessity

"prevailing in trangthing considered the