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It is significant that in the report on the first hundred cases dealt with by the Society, there were no cases of ill-treatment of mui-t sai.
3. Although the Society can thus give substantial assistance to the Government, the main work of inspection is carried out by the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs which employs one sub-inspector solely for work in connection with mui-tsai. All information is immediately dealt with by him,
or by one of the other police officers attached to the Secretariat, if he is already engaged. It is proposed to appoint shortly two Chinese ladies as additional mui-t sai inspectors.
In addition to the Secretariat, all police stations and District Watchmen pay special attention to any mui-t sai complaints, and experience has shown that these are made freely. Such information is then always investigated by the persons receiving it or passed to the Secretariat for action. 4. Apart from the Society for the Protection of Children, the other institutions receiving financial support are constituted rather as places of refuge for mui-tsai than as bodies responsible for inspecting or supervising mui -t sai outside their immediate jurisdiction. But even among these there are some, such as the Salvation Army Home, which carry out a certain amount of extemal inspection. Thus, for example, the authorities of the Salvation Army Home, which, together with the Po Leung Kuk, receives in the first instance most of the mui-tsai and ex-mui-tsai who have left or been taken away by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs from their employers, continue to keep in touch with all girls who have at any time passed through the Home.
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