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ORDINANCE No. 12 of 1857 . 393


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 Keepers of
brothels to
furnish the Re
week furnish the Registrar General with a true report of the condition of health of gistrar General
with weekly lists
each and every of the inmates of the same. of inmates, &c.

9. In every registered brothel there shall be kept suspended, in some public place, Lists of inmates,
&c. to be kept
a board, containing , in the English and Chinese languages, a list of the names and ages suspended in
each brothel.
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 Penalty for
offering any
obstacle to visits
admit such Registrar General, Superintendent, or Inspector of Police, for the purpose ofproper officers
&e.
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 Women affected
with anyvenereal
declared by the Colonial Surgeon or such other medical officer as aforesaid to be disease to be
removed to
affected with any venereal disease, shall be, by order of the Registrar General given hospital.
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