CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924 — Page 207

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Dear Mrs. Rolfe,

I sent you a cable on Monday to say that the Government announces its intention of bringing in an ordinance for Regulation of Frostitutes in Singapore. The statement was made at the meeting of the Legislative Council that morning, but they say that they are bound first to refer their opinions to England and to get the consent of the Secretary of State for the Colonies. I asked you also to inform Lady Astor because 3 days before, one of the Reuters Cables in the newspaper said that she had been esking questions in Parliament on the/subject.

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I hope that my lecture will be published in time to send it with this letter, but if not, there are certain points which I might mention so that you may have the full history of the thing.

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You probably know that for years past Dr.Galloway, who is a member of the Legislative Council and has been in Singapore for over 30 years, has been in favour of putting on the 0.1.0.again. I thin it not an unfair description of him which was given by a Health Officer who described the late commission we have had

Ten here es being "obsessed with the idea of the C.L.0. years ago he wrote to me that he believed 40% of the European population had suffered from V.L. and 80% of the Asiatic population. He repeated theme figures 2 years ago in the Legislative Council. Just before he wrote to me he had been trying to get the whole system imposed upon the r..S. and I

In believe the Colony also though I go not certain of that,

fficer considered the system the F..3, the Principal medical

out of date. A meeting was called consisting of the P.1.0. Dr. Sansom who is now on a peneion and whose address I presume

Dr. Tertius Clark who could be got from the Colonial Uffice;

is still a Health Vrficer in the State of Kedah, and who has been doing public health work for some 20 years; and two or three other doctors, They turned down the matter saying that they would wait until the Report of the Royal Commission on V.D. in England came out. The matter was brought up again, I was absent at that time not having partly by your visit.

I believe that as far back as that the returned from England. Government were contemplating something like the re-introduction of the C.D.0. I say that judging from what Archdeacon Swindell told me with regard to something the Governor said to him. Archdeacon's address is y'o the Royal Colonial institute, Northumberland Ave ue. lle is on furlough and will I think Just have reached England from Italy at the time when you get this. Anyhow, letters will be forwarded to him,

In Novermber 1921, Dr.Galloway made a speech in the Legislative Council in which he quite clearly hinted that he wished the 0.5.0. back again. A body called the Singapore Scoial Service Society

i sued a memorandum on the subject, showing the bad effects of euch measures. Dr. Galloway in reply published a paper in which as you know he gave e rather shocking mis-quotation from the Colombo Report, applying to the whole state of things in Qolombo words which the Report had specially limited to one particular offence; whereas the eport said that the general condition of Colombo