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During the First Opium War, the British occupied Hong Kong in 1841 and one year later, Hong Kong Island was ceded to them in the Treaty of Nanking. The population increased rapidly and prostitution was rife. As a consequence, veneral diseases proliferated and were problematical for many years.[1]
See also
[edit]- Lock Hospital
- Contagious Diseases Acts, in 19th century United Kingdom
References
[edit]- ^ Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences Society, ed. (2006). Plague, SARS and the Story of Medicine in Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 88–90. ISBN 9789622098053.