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been traced, leaving 132 still "untraceable" on
November 30th, 1933.
(b) "Muitsai registered and visited at least once".
These originally numbered 471 (see paragraph 5 of
Mr. (now Sir Thomas) Southorn's despatch No. 521 of
28th June, 1952) but, as reported in subsequent
despatches, 141 (122 plus 19) have since been
traced, leaving 330 still "untraceable" on November
3uth, 1933. Your figure of 349 seems to have
included the 19 girls mentioned in 6th paragraph
of my despatch No. 653 of 28th December, 1953.
(c) "Muitsai reported by the Inspectors as not to be
found when the addresses shown on the Register
were visited". These numbered 288 on November suth,
1953. It is to be observed that the number of
girls in this category is constantly changing from
day to day as many girls who are reported missing
are subsequently found again at other addresses.
4.
As you are aware the names of such Muitsai
are not now removed from the Register, as, whatever may
be the information as to their movements given to the
Inspectors by neighbours, something more certain is now
required before they are finally written off. There is
always the hope that such girls may be located again and
in fact this does happen in a considerable number of
cases. There always remains, however, an excess of the
girls "reported missing" over those "reported missing but
subsequently located again" and therefore the number of
missing girls in this category is gradually increasing.
On November 30th, 1933, this excess stood at 288, which
figure represents the nett, total of Muitsai whose addresses