The Medical Inspection of Prostitutes.

Notification No. 39 of the Metropolitan Police Board, issued on the 10th October, 1900, under the signature of ÅŒura Kanetake, Commissary of Police, which superseded Notification No. 22 of March, 1894, provides for the medical inspection of public women as follows:

All prostitutes are to undergo both regular and special inspections. Regular inspection is to take place once a week, and the days appointed in T�ky� are:—

District.Inspection Days.
Shin-YoshiwaraMonday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
SusakiFriday and Saturday.
ShinagawaMonday.
Nati� ShinjukuWednesday.
Senju-machi and Minami
Senju-machi		Thursday.
Itabashi-machiSaturday.
Hachi�ji-machiFriday.
Fuchū-machiTuesday.
Ch�fu-machiTuesday.

Special Inspection takes Place:—

(1)When a woman becomes a prostitute.
(2)When a woman has been resting outside the brothel to which she is attached, and is going to resume her calling after the lapse of seven days.
(3)When a patient is about to be discharged from a hospital.
(4)When a patient who has been sick has recovered her health and is about to resume her calling.
(5)When a woman discovers that she is infected.
(6)When a special inspection is considered necessary or expedient by the physicians.

The special inspection days in T�ky� are:—

District.Inspection Days.
Shin-YoshiwaraEvery day except Sunday.
SusakiEvery day except Sunday.
Shinagawa-machiMonday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
Nati� ShinjukuMonday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
Senju-machi and Minami
Senju-machi		Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Itabashi-machiMonday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Hachi�ji-machiMonday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Fuchū-machiMonday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Ch�fu-machiMonday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Upon being inscribed upon the Registers of Prostitutes, new-comers are to be examined, on one of the special inspection days, by the surgeons of the Inspection Office (Kensa-jo). Special provisions are made to meet all cases needing inspection, and the regulations require all infected women to enter the Lock Hospital for proper treatment under penalty of a fine of not exceeding Yen 1.95 (U.S. $0.97-1�2, or a little under 4/-s sterling.) Patients intending to leave the hospital must procure a certificate (shindan-sho) from the President of the hospital. As a regular thing, examinations are to be conducted between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., and at the close of each such examination the woman is to procure a sealed certificate of inspection (juken-sh�sho) from the surgeon.

Outside the Yoshiwara Lock Hospital on “Inspection Day.�