THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH JUNE, 1880.
w hillside or anywhere, but in winter they
nerally prefer to accept sulkily the hospitality the gaol where two meals a day and a bed at tare furnished to them, provided they turn
early in the evening and look out in day time
cuployment, which eventually takes them way from the Colony.
As to Macao or Hongkong born Portuguese
titutes, there are always women going about With beggging petitious at all hours of the day, alling at private houses. but generally not im- Deserving Portuguese poor have,
⚫rtimate.
gever, their ecclesiastical charities to provide
their direst wants, and there is also a Society St. Vincent de Paul which is a sort of Artuguese Charity Organization Society for the
pair in the Colony.
As to Chinese destitutes there is no provision de by Government, nor by private organization, ar dealing with Chinese forms of destitution in a estematic and at the same time humane and tional manner. Chinese destitution, as seen in Hongkong, consists in the first instance of bereditary and professional mendicants, viz., lepers al professional beggars, who use personal rag- gedress and physical debility or deformity as a us to gain a livelihood by begging for food
and base cash. They frequently also employ children who dog the steps of strangers, espe- vially in Queen's Road Central, dainouring for #kuinsha," whilst they themselves keep a lookout to give timely warning in the rare case of a Constable awaking to his duty of interfering in the matter. A second class of Chinese destitutes unsists of strangers, waifs and strays cast on the community by kidnappers who have been 'mefered with by the Police and who are then ged at the Tung-wá Hospital, or of lunatics Ar whom also there is no other refuge but the fung-wa Hospital, or of stray orphans, or travellers aff permiless en route. 2A third class of Chinese bstitutes consists of mei disabled by accident, lness or excessive opiun smoking, who have no nds here and no money to return to their rcestral homes, or of women with a larger number of children than they can, in the absence r through the desertion of their husbands, sup- rrt, and who, especially since the Chief Justice's judgment on the subject of domestic servitude,
e prevented by fear of prosecution disposing their children for legitimate domestic purposes, arrangement with other facilies.
For all these Chinese destitutes, who, in TO- vion to a population of over 140,000 Chinese the Colony, happily form but a comparatively
number, there is neither poor-house nor rensary nor hospital, uor even lunatic asylum, tailed by the Government. There is indeed Tung-wa Hospital, but the Committee are so raid of being burdened with permanent pauper nts, that be poor are admifted into the Hos-
d without recommendation on the part of duuutial subscribers. There is alson Poor Box A very limited micans at the Magistracy, but Romelut cases of extraordinary misery, or pampers
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