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accidents and most of these were due to falls from staging or into ships' holds. Only two accidents concerned women, the compulsory fencing of machinery having reduced the risk of scalping accidents which were formerly so frequent amongst women in knitting factories. A separate table is appended showing the number of accidents occurring in each industry.
67. Legislation:-No further additions have been made to the industrial legislation of the Colony during the year, but the rapid spread of small factories occupying tenement floors in the residential areas has rendered imperative the need for more effective control, and the question of registration of factories and workshops is being considered as a first step towards this object.
CHINESE TEMPLES.
(Ordinance 7 of 1928).
(Tables XXX and XXXIII).
68. Much time and trouble were required after the Ordinance was passed to reduce the accounts of the thirty-four Temples concerned and the connected General Charities Fund account to regular order. The accounts of many of the Temples needed clarification: liabilities incurred before the date of the Ordinance—sometimes outside the stricter limits set by the Ordinance—had to be examined and dealt with; the amount to be allowed for standing charges (including customary payments on account of schools, Temple festivals and God's birthdays) required settlement, and it was essential that at this stage the questions arising should be viewed with as much sympathy as possible for those who had hitherto had the unchecked handling of the Temple Revenues. By July 1st, 1951, it was possible to reduce the accounts to order: entering generally the sum of $44,949 as spent by that date and since 1928 out of Temples Revenues on objects proper to the General Charities Fund.
69. The Temples Committee then reviewed the financial position of each separate Temple and made allocations to the General Charities Fund of sums totalling $90,000 which sum has since been applied under the authority of the General Charities Fund Committee to the enlargement and improvement of the Wantsai Chinese Public Dispensary Maternity Hospital, and of the Yaumati Chinese Public Dispensary: and further to the construction of an entirely new building as a Chinese Public Dispensary in Kowloon City.
70. By the community as a whole the Ordinance, one of a rather unusual nature, has been welcomed. It has resulted in no interference with religion or with customary observances, but fortune telling of the crystal gazing type—which was becoming a serious menace—is no longer openly practised. The policy of keeping the Temples in good repair out of their own resources