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In connection with the report
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recently called for by Your Lordship as to whether it was
expedient or desirable to remove the restrictions which
prevent British Ships carrying indentured labour to foreign
countries I would call attention to the 2nd. paragraph on
page 3 of Mr. Brewin's report.
6.
988 Chinese births were registered
in 1905 as compared with 942 in the previous year. It was
hoped that the opening of two branch registration offices
in the East and West ends of the Town, which took place
on the 1st. July, 1904, would induce the Chinese to regist-
-er the births of their children more regularly but it
would appear that this measure has had little if any effect.
7.
The financial position of the
Tung Wa Hospital remains satisfactory. I expressed the
hope in the seventh paragraph of my Despatch last year
that the opening of branches in the East and West Districts
would tend to lessen the most undesirable practice of
depositing corpses in the streets and open spaces of the
Town. I regret to report that up to the present the result
attending this measure has been nugatory, though it is
possible that the well-known reluctance of the Chinese to
adopt