by Elizabeth Blackwell

“ She must place sufficient money to defray defendant's costs in court beforehand, and the defendant may always plead in defence, that he intended to execute the provisions of the Act.
The sole object of the Act, in all its provisions for prostitutes, is to keep them healthy. They are in no way interfered with if they show that they are physically healthy, as is the case with the large majority. ”

“ He tells them of such evils as employing paid informers to discover prostitutes; seizing marked money in unlicensed houses; illegal practice of arresting, instead of issuing summonses to, inmates of bad houses; the medical examination of women not prostitutes, etc. To this appeal the Lords of the Admiralty reply that "they decline to criticise the Hong-Kong ordinances, but trust the Act will be continued in that Colony, where it has proved of much benefit to Her Majesty's Navy." ”

“ The use of plain clothes seems proper and natural; the use of marked money is not necessarily reprehensible. The acceptance of money in consideration of a request for sexual intercourse is evidence of the character of the recipient ”

“ The systematic medical examination of women. 3. A great extension of the Act to poor women, boatwomen, and washerwomen, to be considered as prostitutes (p. 56) . In order to force this corrupt system upon a weak, ignorant race, unable to protect themselves against the crushing domination of a stronger race, the employment of paid informers going about in plain clothes is justified ”