ORDINANCE No. 12 of 1857.
Venereal Diseases.
medical officer to be from time to time appointed under the provisions of this Ordinance; and the Registrar General and such several officers as aforesaid are hereby empowered to visit and inspect the condition of such brothels; and the Colonial Surgeon or such other medical officer as aforesaid is hereby empowered and required to visit each one of such registered brothels, and inspect and examine each one of the inmates therein at least once in every ten days.
8. Every keeper, mistress, or manager of a registered brothel, shall once in every week furnish the Registrar General with a true report of the condition of health of each and every of the inmates of the same.
9. In every registered brothel there shall be kept suspended, in some public place, a board, containing, in the English and Chinese languages, a list of the names and ages of the inmates then resident in the house, and such list shall be altered from time to time according as any inmate may be absent therefrom, either by reason of leaving such house altogether, or of being removed therefrom either to gaol or hospital under the provisions of this Ordinance.
10. Any brothel keeper or prostitute who shall offer any obstacle to, or refuse to admit such Registrar General, Superintendent, or Inspector of Police, for the purpose of making such inspection as aforesaid, or shall refuse to submit to such inspection or examination by the Colonial Surgeon or such other medical officer as aforesaid, or shall furnish a wilfully false report of the condition of health of the inmates as is herein required, or shall not keep suspended such list of such inmates, and keep the same altered or corrected from time to time as is herein required, as the case may be, shall for each offence be liable to a penalty of not more than one hundred current dollars, or may be imprisoned with or without hard labour for any time not exceeding three months.
11. Every prostitute, or inmate of a registered brothel, who shall be at any time declared by the Colonial Surgeon or such other medical officer as aforesaid to be affected with any venereal disease, shall be, by order of the Registrar General given under his hand, removed to such hospital as shall be built or set apart for women affected with venereal diseases, under the provisions of this Ordinance, and such prostitute shall be kept under the control of the medical officer of such hospital, and shall not leave or attempt to leave the same until properly discharged as cured by such medical officer; and on every occasion of discharging any such prostitute from the said hospital as cured the medical officer so discharging such prostitute shall give her a certificate under his hand of having been so discharged, which certificate, should such prostitute return to a brothel, is to be produced and shown to the Registrar General, or to the Superintendent or Inspectors of Police, whensoever the production of the same shall be by him or them demanded; and any prostitute who shall during her continuance in such hospital refuse to submit to or obey the directions of the medical officer thereof, or shall leave or attempt to leave the same until she be properly discharged as cured as aforesaid, shall be liable to be imprisoned with or without hard labour.
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Keepers of brothels to furnish the Registrar General with weekly lists of inmates, &c.
Lists of inmates, &c. to be kept suspended in each brothel.
Penalty for offering any obstacle to visits of proper officers &c.
Women affected with any venereal disease to be removed to hospital.
ORDINANCE No. 12 oF 1857.
Venereal Diseases.
medical officer to be from time to time appointed under the provisions of this Ordinance; and the Registrar General and such several officers as aforesaid are hereby empowered to visit and inspect the condition of such brothels; and the Colonial Surgeon or such other medical officer as aforesaid is hereby empowered and required to visit each one of such registered brothels, and inspect and examine each one of the inmates therein at least once in every ten days.
8. Every keeper, mistress, or manager of a registered brothel, shall once in every week furnish the Registrar General with a true report of the condition of health of each and every of the inmates of the same.
9. In every registered brothel there shall be kept suspended, in some public place, a board, containing, in the English and Chinese languages, a list of the names and ages of the inmates then resident in the house, and such list shall be altered from time to time according as any inmate may be absent therefrom, either by reason of leaving. such house altogether, or of being removed therefrom either to gaol or hospital under the provisions of this Ordinance.
10. Any brothel keeper or prostitute who shall offer any obstacle to, or refuse to admit such Registrar General, Superintendent, or Inspector of Police, for the purpose of making such inspection as aforesaid, or shall refuse to submit to such inspection or examination by the Colonial Surgeon or such other medical officer as aforesaid, or shall furnish a wilfully false report of the condition of health of the inmates as is herein required, or shall not keep suspended such list of such inmates, and keep the same altered or corrected from time to time as is herein required, as the case may be, shall for each offence be liable to a penalty of not more than one hundred current dollars, or may be imprisoned with or without hard labour for any time not exceeding three months.
11. Every prostitute, or inmate of a registered brothel, who shall be at any time declared by the Colonial Surgeon or such other medical officer as aforesaid to be affected with any venereal disease, shall be, by order of the Registrar General given under his hand, removed to such hospital as shall be built or set apart for women affected with venereal diseases, under the provisions of this Ordinance, and such prostitute shall be kept under the control of the medical officer of such hospital, and shall not leave or attempt to leave the same until properly discharged as cured by such medical officer; and on every occasion of discharging any such prostitute from the said hospital as cured the medical officer so discharging such prostitute shall give her a certificate under his hand of having been so discharged, which certificate, should such prostitute return to a brothel, is to be produced and shown to the Registrar General, or to the Superintendent or Inspectors of Police, whensoever the production of the same shall be by him or them demanded; and any prostitute who shall during her continuance in such hospital refuse to submit to or obey the directions of the medical officer thereof, or shall leave or attempt to leave the same until she be properly discharged as cured as aforesaid, shall be liable to be imprisoned with or without hard
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Keepers of brothels to furnish the Re- gistrar Genera! with weekly lists of inmates, &c.
Lists of inmates, &c. to be kept suspended in each brothel.
Penalty for offering any obstacle to visits
of proper officers &c.
Women affected with any venercal disease to be
removed to hospital.
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