Manual for medical officers of health / by Edward Smith.

Date:
1873
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Manual for medical officers of health / by Edward Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    thoroughfare, street, or place for the purpose of prostitution, or otherwise (within those hmits) conducts herself as a com- mon prostitute. PENALTIES FOR HARBOURING, ETC. Penalties for permitting Prostitute having Contagious Disease to Resort to any House, d^c. for Prostitution. Section 36.—If any person, being the owner or occupier of any house, room, or place within the limits of any place to which this Act apphes, or being a manager or assistant in the management thereof, having reasonable cause to believe any woman to be a common prostitute and to be affected with a contagious disease, induces or suffers her to resort to or be in that house, room, or place for the purpose of pros- titution, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and on summary conviction thereof before two justices shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, or, at the discretion of the justices, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour: Provided that a conviction under this enactment shall not exempt the offender from any penal or other consequences to which he may be Hable for keeping or being concerned m keeping a bawdy house or disorderly house, or for the nuisance thereby occasioned. PROCEDURE, ETC. Application of 11 6- 12 Vid. c. 43, and 14 6- 15 Vict. c. 93, to this Act. Section 37.—All proceedings under this Act before and by justices shall be had in Engla7td according to the pro- visions of the Act of the session of the nth and 12th years of Her Majesty (chapter 43), to Facilitate the Per- formance of the Duties of Justices of the Peace out of bessions withm England and Wales with respect to Sum- rnary Convictions and Orders, and in Ireland according to the provisions of the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851 as tar as those provisions respectively are not inconsistent with any provision of this Act, and save that the room or place m which a justice sits to enquire into the truth of the state- ments contained in any information or application under F 2