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> relating to Measures
> Adopted for Checking the Spread of Venereal Disease' (Cd. 2903),
> and relates to enactments in the Straits Settlements, Hong Kong,
> and Gibraltar, during the period in which the Rt. Hon. Joseph
> Chamberlain was at the head of the Colonial office.
>
> "The correspondence in question further reveals the existence and
> extent of a 'Yellow Slave Trade' in the East of large dimensions.
> The girls in question are stated to be 'bought when young,' and
> 'believe themselves bound body and soul to the brothel-keepers.'
> Nine hundred and sixty-eight Chinese women, presumably of this
> kind, are reported at Penang, and 62 Japanese women. There were
> 176 admissions of Japanese women, and 141 admissions of Chinese
> women in 1899 to the public hospital at Singapore, besides numbers
> of other cases to private hospitals maintained by the keepers of
> the houses of ill-fame.
>
> "Many passages in the correspondence give evidence of a continual
> import traffic going on, which the head of the Regulation
> Department, the 'Protector of Chinese,' at Singapore, seems to
> have made some effort to cou
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