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suffering from disease visiting the shipping was next considered. The evidence of the ioting Captain Superintend- ent of Police (Mr. King) and the larbour Easter (Lieutenant- Commander C. Hake) was to the effect that such women did visit the shipping and on the day before they gave evidence it will be seen that a boat with eleven women in it waB
found on its way. These women, some of whom had just arrived in the Colony, were nearly all suffering from venereal disease. It has been represented that certain officers of ships that visit Hongkong regularly keep mistresses who visit the ships when in port, though no douh such cases are comparatively few. The proposal that no women should be allowed on board any ship in the harbour without permit would prove too vexatious in our opinion, and would tend to provoke unnecessary irritation and
annoyance.
We consider that the matter is one that should be left to the police and the shipping companies to deal
with.
14. A large part of the report is devoted to what may be called propagande. We are wholly opposed to the wide dissemination of literature to old and young on the subject of venereal disease as it appears to us that more harm than good is done by such methods. As regards the young, parents and guardians must be left to do what is necessary in the natural course of training their children, and an regarda adulte information could be given regarding the means provided for diagnosis and trosiment.
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We are also opposed to the proposals made in the report for the suppression of brothels, but we are in favour of a vigorous compaign being conducted against soliciting in the streets. A large propertion of the venereal disease in the Colony is contracted from this source, and though the evidence shows that the ordinary medical examination conducted in brothels cannot be regarded as an adequate safeguard, it is in our opinion
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