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Table V.

Number of Assisted Emigrants.

Year Examined Passed Rejected Un-willing Rejected at S.C.A. as unfit Rejected by Doctor Total Percentage of rejection 1916 25,357 17,665 204 201 177 2.29 1917 20,658 15,265 626 292 154 1,072 5.18 1918 9,433 6,667 277 10 37 324 3.43

Treatment of Rejected Emigrants for 1918.

Sent home through Tung Wa Hospital at expense of boarding houses 255 Sent away without help 37 Sent back to boarding houses to be cured out of the number rejected by doctor 32 Total rejected 324

Native Districts of Assisted Emigrants.

West River 869 East River 2,580 North River 314 Canton 954 Delta 441 Kwong Sai 979 Southern Districts 336 Mandarin, (Hunan, Kwong Sai, and Kiang Si) 194 Total 6,667

Destinations of Assisted Emigrants.

Whither bound Male Assisted Emigrants 1917 1918 Straits Settlements and F.M.S. 8,862 1,219 British North Borneo 581 819 Dutch Indies :- Banka 3,286 2,375 Billiton, Batavia 2,234 2,028 Balikpapan 107 195 226 Total 15,265 6,667