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The National Association for the Repeal
of the Contagious Diseases Acker
My Lord
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2 Westminster Chambers, London, I. March 28th 1884-.
On the 3rd of May last we had the honour to address to your Lordship a letter on the Contagious 13 Diseases Ordinance in force in Hong Kong. To this Mr
R.G.W. Herbert replied. on behalf of your Lordship
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on the 10th of the same month, stating, inter alia that " the registration of all brothel's and their supervision by the "Government, is approved by the general Chinese population "of the Colony", and giving this as a reason for the maintenance
On the 18th of the of such licencing and inspection. following month we sent to your Lordship a detailed and
our reasons for lengthy reply to this allegation, giving. thinking that your Lordship had been misled as to the feeling of the native Chinese population, and demurring to the notion that, even if that feeling were favourable to State-licenced and Shele-protected prostitution, the British Government could honourably or decently undertake such work. To this letter, we have received neither reply nor acknowledgment, and we new apprals to your Lordship for information whether any, and if so what, steps have been taken to withdraw from the brothels of Hong Kong the licence of Her Majesty's m Government, and from the women of Hong King the liability to compulsory examination and registation. as prostitutes.
We again begrespectfully to put on recent the fact that the conditions mentioned by your Lent ship, on the 17% of April last, as necessary and sufficient to procure the abandonment in the British Colonies of the systone to
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