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Dear Mrs.Neville Rolfe,

I had your letter of January 8th addressed to me in Ceylon forwarded here and received a few days' ago, and I am now in a position to give you information on the points you ask about, both in Ceylon and here.

First of all as to Ceylon.

Women are prevented access to vessels in Port, and this is done by the Board of Emigration and Quarantine, which has an ordinance which makes it compulsory to have a written permit signed on behalf of the Chairman before any person is allowed on board.

Thia As far as I can judge this is rigidly carried out. ordinance I find dates from War period and was found so useful, that it has not been abrogated. Then as regards the Police. All the members of the Force are treated for Venereal Visease

Thyg are encouraged to take in hospital or otherwise free.

I have this direct from treatment and there is no penalisation. the Chief of Police whom I interviewed in Colombo.

One

In Colombo, three Venereal Lisease Clinics are working. for men at the General Hospital and one for women at the Women's They are I hear using 5000 dosea Hospital and one in the Port.

of neo-salvarsan and allied compounds per month for larangi and syphilis.

I endeavoured to find how the branch of the N.0.0.V.D. wee

They have translated pamphlets into Tamil and going on. Cingalese, but otherwise I think they are ina state of suspended animation. I have formed an opinion why this is so, but will

↓ explain. wait till I come to England and see you before

Since I have been in the r..S. I have done a good deal of

I have interviewed work enquiring how things are going on here. the Senior Health Officer and many practitioners and have visited three hospitals. As a result I do not think at present that the Venereal Disease problem is particularly acute (in the Federated Malay States). Much less so, I should say than in Ceylon. is very little doing in the way of a crusade.

There

Here there

Last week end I had a special journey to Singapore.

Things, I should think, is a very different state of affairs. especially among te Straits-born Chinese, are about as bad as they can be. I saw the senior health fficer for the Municipality of Singapore and also the Health Officer, and had long interviews with them. I obtained a copy of the Report you ask about and

The evidence given before the foward it in seperate cover. Commission is strictly confidential, but I have been permitted

There is practically to read it (which I have now done throughout).

a concensus of opinion that registration of all broth la, regular and otherwise is absolutely necessary under the circumstances,