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Extract from the C.M.S. Victoria Home and Orphanage Hong Kong
Report for 1927.
The Home supplies a very real need, not only for the fatherless and those unable to pay the higher fees of other schools, but a place of security for the helpless little ones rescued from off the streets, fro: houses of ill-fame and from slavery.
The Secretary for Chinese Affairs, after handling the cases brought under his notice, sends to the Home all whom we are able to receive. Many of them have been so ill-treated and neglected that physical examination is necessary, followed by months of careful treatment for diseases both external and internal.
During the year thirteen little ones have been received here. Mei Ying, with her two sisters, Hop-I and Sun-I was sent here by the Sec. of Chinese Affairs. He rescued them from a woman,not their mother, who was bringing them up for imnɔral purposes.
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un Imu,aged eight, was sent to us from the same source. She was -a slave, having been sold by her parents, and had to wash clothes for nine people. Her mistress beat her on the head, and burnt her face, the mark still showing. A policeman found her in the street crying, having run away from her mistress, and took her to the Detention Home. She was afterwards sent to us, a miserable little specimen of humanity. Now she is bonny, plump and happy.