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marriage at some future undetermined date.
The Lady
Inspector told the employer that this method was not in
order and instructed her to attend with the girl at the
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs on the following day.
According to the evidence of the employer and another
servant employed in the same household the girl, who was
usually happy and cheerful, appeared to be worried at
the thought of the impending visit to the Secretariat for
Chinese Affairs and early the next morning she was found
lying in the garden in circumstances suggesting that she
had fallen or jumped from the roof. At the Coroner's
Inquiry the Jury returned a verdict to the effect that
death was due to injuries received from a fall but that there
was insufficient evidence to indicate how deceased came
to fall. There is little doubt, however, that the girl
committed suicide.
8.
During the six months under review a total
of 1,570 visits were made by the two Lady Inspectors to
registered Muitsai and to ex-Muitsai who have obtai ned
situations as domestic servants. The work of the
Inspectorate, not only in the supervision of Muitsai but
in the protection of children in general, may perhaps be illustrated by the following extract from the latest
X
report of the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of
Children. Referring to the arrangements made for the
welfare of children the Report
says:-
"In this branch of the Society's work your Committee "cannot speak too highly of the unfailing sympathy "and co-operation of the officers of the Secretariat
"for Chinese Affairs. Only those who are in close "contact with the work of the senior officers, of "Sub-Inspector Fraser and of the women Inspectors