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the brothels used by Europeans to a less central site, "pending the change of policy from regulation to suppression” Para.7. They disagree with the Hong Kong
Committee's oninion that the question
of the accessibility of shinning to
women be left to the Police and
Shioning Companies to deal with.
They point out that unless Hong Kong pass the fresh legisls- tion mentioned the Police have no
nover in the matter.
Pare.. The granting of permits under
the measures pronosed above is quite
practicable and is at present in
force at Colombo.
Mrs. Neville Rolfe sends also
a private letter to Mr. Ormsby Gore nointing out that if the suggestion in paragraph 11 of the Hong Kong rerort is that the diagnosis of Venereal cases should be taken in hand by the Chinese
dispensaries it would seem to her that
the men in charge of those establish-
ments would be ouite unequal to the work,
judging from the type she found there
when the Commission visited Hong Kong.
She asks whether the new
P.C... has left this country yet:
and if not could the Council have an
opportunity of meeting him.
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TELEPHONE:
REGENT 3876.
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Dear Mr.Ormsby-Gore,
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12th November, 1923.
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There is one other point that I personally should like quite unofficially to raise with you, and that is with reference to the Chinese Dispensaries in Hong Kong being used for the purpose of diagnosing venereal disease.
When we visited Hong Kong the men in charge of these dis- pensaries were not fully qualified medical men and in the opinion of the medical commissioner, nether the premises nor the personnel were fitted for the diagnosis and treatment of venereal diseases. If, of course, it is meant that the dispensaries would be useful centres for propaganda and would advise persons to seek diagnosis and treatment at the clinic all would be well, but if it seriously suggested that the men in charge of these undertake diagnosis, then one would like to suggest that post-graduate courses should be given by the Venereal Disease Officer on the staff of the Pričnipal Civil Medical Officer before they are authorised to do this.
If the new P.9.M.0, for Hong Kong has not yet left this country, I wonder if it will be possible for us to meet him?
I am afraid it would be difficult to change Str Claude Severn's point of view with regard to prostitution, but I do feel that a carefully prepared memorandum giving the pros and cons of the case and showing the result of the suppression of the brothel areas in those parts where they have been suppressed, would go far to convince our Colonial Administrators that it is not in the interests of public health to concentrate exposures to infection on a known highly infected group. Even in France, that home of regulation, the active venereal disease men are pressing for more ample facilities for free treatment and the abolition of the regulation system.
Yours sincerely,
(SNR.EL)
ly
Thuille. Male.
General Secretary,
N.C.C.V.D.
December 1923
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