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One woman who went to Singapore as a cabin passenger to join her husband and who failed to find him was sent back. She died of phthisis while detained here in the Po Leung Kuk for enquiry.
Two women and two children were returned from Penang and handed back to their relatives.
Four girls alleged to have been kidnapped or decoyed away were sent back from Bangkok and were handed back to their relatives.
The route via Bangkok (which is not covered by our Emigration Ordinance) to Singapore seems to have been increasingly utilised to avoid the local regulations. The regulations also do not cover cabin passengers: and there are in addition routes which avoid the Colony altogether. Cases under all three headings have been sent back to us by the Straits Settlements, and dealt with in the usual way.
10. Prosecutions under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance undertaken by this office numbered 7 with 3 convictions as compared with 6 cases and 3 convictions in 1918.
(ii.)—MALE EMIGRATION, (ASSISTED). (Table V.)
11. Assisted Emigration to the Straits was practically at a stand-still throughout the year: partly for lack of shipping facilities, but very largely on account of the difficulties of exchange.
The Emigration to Banca continued throughout the year. Billiton emigration ceased during the months of June, July, August, and October; but was otherwise continuous.
12. Four batches numbering 356 coolies were passed to go to Balikpapan to work at the petroleum depôt.
Eighty-one unskilled coolies, recruited at Ningpo to proceed to Australia to man two ships, were examined and passed at this office as assisted coolies.
13. Assisted emigration to British North Borneo continued throughout the year. The total number passed was 1,353.
14. The total number of emigrants to the Fiji Islands was 54. They went about once a month in small parties.
15. Of 83 decrepits and destitutes sent back by the Penang Government one died on the voyage, 33 went direct to Swatow or Amoy with through tickets and were only brought to this office to receive pocket money, one was a leper and was sent away by the Police, 2 died in the Tung Wa Hospital, while the remaining 46 were sent home through the Tung Wa Hospital.
Four blind coolies were sent back from Singapore, and were sent home under escort by the Tung Wa Hospital.
16. One hundred and eighty-nine (189) decrepits and destitutes were repatriated from British North Borneo as compared with 178 in 1918. One of these men was allowed to find his relatives in this Colony, and the rest were sent home by the Tung Wa Hospital. The arrangements for the repatriation of these coolies and for the
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