CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]

## Step 1: Understand the task The task is to proofread OCR output of historical records related to Hong Kong, correcting spelling errors, fixing spacing issues, rejoining broken sentences, restoring paragraph breaks, and indicating missing words, all while maintaining the original content and style. ## Step 2: Review the given text The provided text appears to be a table or a series of tables related to the number of scholars attending schools under government supervision in Hong Kong during 1879. The text includes various school names, numbers of boys and girls, total numbers, and expenses. ## Step 3: Identify necessary corrections The text contains numerous OCR errors, including misspellings, incorrect spacing, and potentially misordered text due to the OCR process. Corrections are needed to make the text readable and understandable. ## Step 4: Apply corrections according to the rules 1. **Format in Markdown**: The text should be transformed into standard Markdown format. 2. **Correct spelling errors**: Spelling mistakes need to be corrected. 3. **Fix spacing issues**: Extra spaces should be removed, and missing spaces added where necessary. 4. **Rejoin broken sentences**: Sentences split across lines or columns should be merged. 5. **Restore paragraph breaks**: Incorrectly merged or split paragraphs should be formatted correctly. 6. **Indicate missing words**: Clearly missing words due to OCR damage should be indicated with `...`. 7. **No rephrasing or rewriting**: The original style, tone, and word choice should be preserved. ## Step 5: Begin proofreading Given the complexity and the specific instructions, the proofreading will involve: - Correcting obvious spelling errors. - Adjusting spacing to improve readability. - Reorganizing tables to their original structure if necessary. - Ensuring that file references and page numbering are correctly formatted. ## Step 6: Execute the proofreading Due to the format constraints and the nature of the task, the detailed step-by-step proofreading of the entire text is not feasible to describe in detail here. However, the process involves carefully going through the text, applying the rules mentioned, and ensuring that the output is in Markdown format with the necessary corrections. ## Step 7: Output the corrected text in HTML format as per the final instruction The final output should be in HTML format using `

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TABLE NUMBER of SCHOLARS attending Schools subject to Government Supervision during 1879.

Central School,

Native Schools Native Schools Grant-in-Aid (Government). (Aided). Schools.

TABLE III-NUMBER of SCHOLARS at the Government Schools, during 1879, and Expense of each School,

Boys. Girls. Total. Expense. 1. Aberdeen, 44 44 $265.00 2. Ap-li-chau, 34 34 3. Basel Mission Boys' School, 58 58 $122.50 4. Basel Mission Girls' School, 25 25 5. Baxter School, (D'Aguilar Street), 6. Baxter School, (Hollywood Road), 7. Baxter School, (Sai-ying-pún), 8. Bishop Bardon's Boys' School, (D'Aguilar Street), 47 47 $590.00 9. Central School, 473 473 $14,028.35 10. C. M. S. Baxter Girls' School, (St. Stephen's), 53 53 $368.00 11. C. M. S. Boys' School, (Queen's Road), 73 73 $82.00 12. C. M. S. Boys School, (Sai-ying-pún), 38 38 $60.00 13. C. M. S. Boys' School, (St. Stephen's), 78 78 $61.00 14. Diocesan Home and Orphanage, 15. Girls' School, 59 59 $62.00 16. Hák-trái, $61.50 17. Hok-ún, 65 65 $74.00 18. Hung-hom, 68 68 $258.00 19. Little Hongkong, 59 59 $288.75 20. L. M. S. Baxter Girls' School, (Staunton Street), 25 25 $62.00 21. L. M. S. Boys' School, (Tank Lane), 170 170 $171.00 22. L. M. S. Boys' School, (Wán-tsai), 23. L. M. S. Boys' School, (Yau-má-tí), 57 57 $124.00 24. L. M. S. Girls' School, (Tai-ping-shan), 25. L. M. S. Girls' School, (Wán-tsai),

TABLE I-PROPORTION of SCHOLARS to POPULATION in the CITY OF VICTORIA and in the VILLAGES in 1879.

CITY AND HARBOUR OF VICTORIA. VILLAGES. Population as per Census of 1876, 113,573. Population, including Boat Population, 25,571 Schools in the City of Victoria. No. of Scholars. Schools in the Villages. No. of Scholars, 1. Basel Mission Boys' School, 68 1. Aberdeen, 44 2. Basel Mission Girls' School, 25 2. Ap-li-chau, 34

TABLE IV-AVERAGE EXPENSE of each SCHOLAR at the Government Schools during 1879,

CENTRAL SCHOOL.

Expenditure, Deduct School Fees,

Total Expense of Central School,

VILLAGE SCHOOLS.

$16,764.35

2,636.00

$14,128.35

$5,490.75

$2,400

Average Expense calculated by the Enrolment.

1. Average Expense of each Scholar at Government Schools,

2. at Government Central School,

3. at Native Schools,

$11.01

23.95

3.77

Average Expense calculated by the Average Daily Attendance,

1. Average Expense of each Scholar at Government Schools,

2.

3.

$19.35

33.95

7.33