A
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653
B &1
↓
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946,
22.3.
*
NOTE ON PRINTED PAPERS FROM 1880 TO 1900.
(A=C3093: B = C 3185; C = Hofe printy 13-1880)
B=
17.
The first legislation, in 1857, resulted
from two evils:-
"practical slavery for the purposes of
prostitution" and the "horrible circumstances" in
respect of venereal disease "which has hitherto
caused ravages too fearful to detail not only in
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our naval and military forces but also in the population generally."
The veneral disease evidence was obtained
mostly from police, solders and sailors.
2.
The Secretary of State wrote on 27 August 1856 "The Colonial Government has not, I think, attached sufficient weight to the very grave fact that
in a British Colony large numbers of women should be held in practical slavery for purposes of prostitution, and allowed in some cases to perish miserably of disease in the prosecution of this employment, and for the gain of those to whom they
suppose themselves to belong. A class of persons who by no choice of their own are subjected to such treatment have an urgent claim on the active
protection of Government. I am not at present prepared to say, and I wish you seriously to consider, in what shape and to what extent it is practicable to give this protection. But I do not see how it can be given at all till the establishments in which such practices are supposed to exist are brought under
the
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