THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH JULY, 1867.
Duration of Order.
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to time the woman is
Year.
LVIII. Every Order under this Ordinance subjecting a woman to periodical order to operate Medical Examination shall be in operation and enforceable in manner in this Ordinance whenever from time provided so long as and whenever from time to time the woman to whom it relates is within the Colony but within the Colony but not in any case for a longer Period than One Year and where not for more than One the Visiting Surgeon on the Discharge by him of any woman from the Hospital certifies that she is free from a Contagious Disease (Proof of which Certificate shall lie on her) the Order subjecting her to periodical Medical Examination shall thereupon cease to operate.
Relief from Examination.
from Examination.
LIX. If any woman subjected to a periodical Medical Examination under this Application for Relief Ordinance (either on her own submission or under the Order of the Registrar Gene- ral) desiring to be relieved therefrom and not being under detention in a Hospital makes application in writing in that behalf to the Registrar General he shall appoint by notice in writing a time and place for the hearing of the application and shall cause the notice to be delivered to the applicant and a copy of the application and of the notice to be delivered to the Superintendent of Police.
Examination on Discontinuance of
LX. If on the hearing of the application it is shown to the satisfaction of the Order for Relief from Registrar General that the applicant has ceased to be a common Prostitute or if the applicant with the approval of the Registrar General enters into a Recognizance with or Prostitution. without Sureties as to the Registrar General seems meet for her good Behaviour during Three Months thereafter the Registrar General shall order that she be relieved from periodical Medical Examination.
Recognizance by
LXI. Every such Recognizance shall be deemed to be forfeited if at any time Forfeiture of during the term for which it is entered into the woman to whom it relates is in any Return to Prostitution. public thoroughfare Street or Place or in any Junk, Boat, Sampan or Craft for the purpose of Prostitution or otherwise conducts herself as a common Prostitute.
Penalties for Harboring.
resort to any House
LXII. If any Person being the Occupier of any House, Room or Place or being Penalty for permitting a Manager or Assistant in the management thereof having reasonable cause to believe Diseased Prostitute to any woman to be a common Prostitute and to be affected with a Contagious Disease for Frostitution.
purpose of induces or suffers her to resort to or be in that House, Room or Place for the Prostitution he shall be guilty of an Offence against this Ordinance and on summary Conviction thereof before the Registrar General shall be liable to a penalty not ex- ceeding $100 or at the discretion of the Registrar General to be haprisoned for any term not exceeding Six Months with or without Hard Labor.
Seamen and Boarding Houses for Seamen.
Boarding Houses for
Seamen resident in
report their state of
to a Hospital.
LXIII. Every Keeper of a Licensed Boarding House for Seamen shall furnish Keepers of Licensed to the Harbor Master, once in every Week, a List of Seamen then resident in his House, Samen to furnish and shall report in such List as to the state of Health of each Seaman so far as he may Harbor Master with be able to ascertain the same; and every Seaman who may be reported or may be weekly Lists of the otherwise discovered to be affected with a Contagious Disease, shall be removed by their Houses, and Warrant under the Hand of the Harbor Master to a Hospital, where he shall be health. Diwased kept until he be, by the Visiting Surgeon thereof, discharged as cured, and shall Seamen to be removed have obtained from such Visiting Surgeon a Certificate of his having been so discharged which Certificate he shall produce and shew to the Harbor Master when required so to do; and the Expenses which may be incurred in and about the Main- tenance and Treatment of any such Seaman in such Hospital, shall be a Debt due to the Crown, and shall be paid by such Seaman; or, in Case of the Keeper of the Boarding House in which such Seaman shall have resided before his removal to Hospital not having reported, or having made a false Report as to the state of Health of such Seaman, then such Expenses shall be paid by such Boarding House Keeper, in case it shall appear to, and be certified by, the Visiting Surgeon of the Hospital to which such Seaman may be removed, that the Disease with which he may be affected is of such a Nature as that the Keeper of the Boarding House could, with ordinary and reasonable Observation, have ascertained its Existence; and in all Cases such ed by the Harbor Master Expenses shall in case of non-payment be sued for and recov on behalf of the Hospital.
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