CO129-522-3 Social hygiene- including trafficking in women & children- brothels- etc. 27-2-1930 - 13-4-1931 — Page 45

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The legalization of brothels in consideration of fees paid to the Government.

The medical inspection of prostitutes and the ir segregation in the Lock Hospital when diseased.

4. The original desire to protect the

apparate

prostitutes' freedom was generally forgotten.

result, particularly of the 1867 law as it was

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administered, was to give the licensed brothel keeper almost an official position to the disadvantage of the inmates and to produce a scandalous system of obtaining convictions by paid informers.

5. In 1877 at a coroner's inquest on two women killed by falling from the roof of a house while in flight from an inspector the jury recommended "that the whole system of obtaining convictions against keepers of unlicensed brothels be thoroughly revised as the present practice is,in their opinion both illegal and immoral". This led to the appoint- ment of a commission which reported in 1878..

6. While the report of the Commission was under correspondence with the Secretary of State the Chief Justice, Sir John Smale, denounced from the bench female slavery including brothel slavery in emphatic terms. His contribution was really only to add more publicity. He seems to have been more

zealous than well-informed.

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7. The Commission examined a large amount of evidence and one of its members at least, Dr. Eitel,

a well-known appears to have had much knowledge of the Chinese.

Chinen scholarAccording to a police magistrate, the prostitutes in

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Hong Kong