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394 ORDINANCE No. 12 of 1857 .


Venereal Diseases.


Expenses of any labour for any time not exceeding three months ; and the expenses which may be
woman while in
hospital, to be incurred in and about the maintenance and treatment of any such prostitute in such
paid by the
keeper ofthe
brothel whence hospital shall be a debt due to the Crown, and shall be paid by the keeper of the
such woman shall
have been brothel of which such prostitute shall have been an inmate, or from which she shall
removed.
have been so removed , and the same in case of non-payment shall be sued for and
recovered by the Registrar General.
Prostitutes in 12. If any prostitute labouring under a venereal disease shall, to the satisfaction
fecting healthy
persons liable to of the Chief or Assistant Magistrate, be proved to have infected any person with such
punishment.
disease, such prostitute, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment
either in gaol or hospital for a term not exceeding three months , and the keeper of the
brothel in which such prostitute shall be found shall in every such case be fined a
penalty not exceeding two hundred current dollars.

Every keeper of 13. Every keeper of a registered brothel shall pay to the Registrar General or
a brothel to pay
a monthly sum . his collector the sum of four current dollars per mensem, which the Registrar General
is hereby empowered to demand and collect, and all such sums are to be paid by the
Registrar General into the Colonial Treasury.

Monies collected 14. All monies collected under or by virtue of sections 13 and 19 are to be appro
by way offees
under this priated to the formation of a general fund for the purposes of this Ordinance, out of
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to the formation which a monthly sum (to be fixed by His Excellency in Council) is to be paid to the
of a general fund
for the purposes Colonial Surgeon, or to such other medical officer as may be from time to time
of the Ordinance .
appointed for the purposes of this Ordinance, under the provisions of section 7, as his
Pay ofthe Co remuneration for performing the duties required or imposed by this Ordinance ; and
lonial Surgeon or
other medical the said Colonial Surgeon, or such other medical officer as aforesaid, is hereby em
officer appointed
under this powered (with the sanction of His Excellency the Governor) to nominate or appoint a
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deputy or assistant, being a person properly qualified to act for him, in case be shall
be at any time incapacitated or unable to perform such duties , or any portion of them.
Keepers of 15. Every keeper of a registered brothel shall be allowed, upon giving notice
brothels may
employ con thereof to the Superintendent of Police, and obtaining his authority, to employ a
stables specially
for their protec
tion, &c. constable for the protection of, and the preservation of order in such brothel, such con
stables to be under the control of, and responsible to, and to be paid by, the Superin
tendent of Police, and to wear a uniform to be chosen for the purpose, but to be solely
employed about the protection of the brothel by the keeper of which each of them is
Such constables employed ; and every keeper of a brothel so employing such special constable as afore
to be under the
control, &c. of said shall pay quarterly in advance to the Superintendent of Police, a sum sufficient to
the Super
intendent of
l'olice. cover the expenses which may be incurred in payment of the wages of and providing
the uniform for such constable, and such sum shall in case of non-payment be sued for
and recovered by the Superintendent of Police.
A hospital for 16. A hospital shall be built , or premises in the first instance hired, exclusively
women to be
built. Provisions
for renting for the reception and treatment of women affected with venereal diseases , the cost of
suitable premises
in the meantime renting such premises to be defrayed out of the fund to be raised under sections 13 and
until such
hospital shall be 19, and the remainder of the monies which shall from time to time be collected under
buit.
the said sections, over and above such sums as shall be applied in payment of the