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# EMIGRATION.
Asiatic Emigration Ordinance No. 30 of 1915.
(i.)—EMIGRATION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN, (FREE).
(Table IV.)
6. The number of female and minor passengers examined and allowed to proceed abroad was 30,050 (women 18,514, girls 2,828 and boys 8,708) as compared with 20,690 in 1920.
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7. The record of the occupations of the female emigrants over 16 years of age shows that out of a total of 18,514, 5,466 were going to join relatives, 5,115 with relatives or husbands, 1,290 as tailoresses, 475 as prostitutes, 4,812 as maidservants or nurses, 661 as cooks, 630 to work on the land. There were also 5 teachers, 6 actresses, 1 hotelkeeper, 5 students, 24 hairdressers, 1 temple-keeper, 1 preacher, 1 traveller, and 17 nuns. 1 was repatriated by Government.
8. No women were detained for enquiries as against 5 in 1920.
9. Repatriation of Women and Girls.—
(a.) From Singapore.—Fifty-four (54) prostitutes who went to Singapore were sent back on the ground that they were too young to practise prostitution. They were all seen off to their destinations.
Ten (10) prostitutes were sent back from Singapore at their own request.
One prostitute who had become insane, and had been treated and cured, was sent back to her relatives.
Besides those enumerated above, eight (8) prostitutes were sent back from Singapore and returned to their homes.
Five applications were received for the recovery of women who had emigrated to Singapore. One was found to be based on false information: the subjects of the others, one of whom had emigrated as a prostitute and three who had run away from home, were recovered and handed back to their relatives.
One girl was repatriated from Singapore in connection with a "trafficking" case. She was sent to the Po Leung Kuk at her own request to await marriage.
(b.) From Bangkok.—One girl was sent back from Bangkok, whither she had been kidnapped for prostitution, and was placed in the Po Leung Kuk to await the arrival of her relatives.
10. Prosecutions under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance undertaken by this office numbered 6 with 1 conviction as compared with 12 cases and 10 convictions in 1920.