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Dick69 wrote:
> the Registrar General, states: "Perhaps the
> strongest argument in favor of the Ordinances is the means they place
> in the hands of the Government for coping with _brothel slavery_."
> From the moment Mr. Labouchere put this false claim to the front
> it has been the chief argument advanced by officials eager for the
> Contagious Diseases Ordinance as a method of providing "clean women,"
> in order to win to their side the benevolent-minded.
>
> On this point the Commission reported: "In regard to the only result
> worthy of a moment's consideration, viz., that referred to by Mr.
> Labouchere's dispatch, of putting down the virtual slavery of women
> in brothels, the conclusions of those in the best position to form
> trustworthy opinions is not encouraging." Mr. Smith, who took over
> charge of the Registrar General's office in October, 1864, and who had
> many years of experience in that position, is quoted as saying: "I
> think it is useless to try and deal with the question of the freedom
> of Chinese prostitutes by law or by any Government regulation. From
> all the surroundings the thing is impracticable." Mr. Lister, another
> Registrar General, says: "I don't think the new Ordinance had any real
> effect, or could have had any effect upon the sale of women. I don't
> think any good is done by preventing women emigrating to San Francisco
> or other places, as their fate is just the same whether they go or
> not."
>
> The Commissioners state:
>
>    "The well-meant system devised by the Registrar General's
>    Department which requires every woman personally to appear before
>    an Inspector at the office, and declare her willingness to enter
>    a licensed brothel, and that she does so without coercion, before
>    she can be registered, may probably act a