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Committee ten times during the year. The average number of women and children in the Po Leung Kuk at the end of each month was 59.
The number in the Po Leung Kuk on the 1st January was 54 and during the year 515 more, of whom 124 were children, were received. The circumstances of their admission and the measures taken regarding them are indicated in Table A. It will suffice here to note that 3 managed to get possession of the matron's key and absconded, 193 were placed in charge of their relatives, 49 were married and 25 adopted. The task of arranging suitable marriages is a difficult one, and in fact so is the whole work entrusted to the Managing Committee of settling the future of the Society's wards. Cases of extreme difficulty are considered at the meetings of the Permanent Board.
The matron and the other members of the staff have worked to the satisfaction of the Board.
The Po Leung Kuk has been visited regularly by the ladies of the Church Missionary Society.
On the whole the health of the inmates has been good. There have been no cases of dangerous illness and only eight slight cases of beri-beri. During the year seventeen of the inmates were admitted into the Tung Wah Hospital.
The usual tables showing the income and expenditure during the year and the assets and liabilities of the Society are attached. The accounts of the Elected Committee have been audited by Mr. Ku Fai-shan and Mr. Chin Chau-sam.
24th February, 1910.
A. W. BREWIN,
Registrar General,
President.
HO KAL
Vice-President.