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6. Five hundred and sixty-three women, girls and children were admitted without warrant. Twenty-nine were lost children, eighty-four were accompanied by parents or guardians and seventy were maidservants or Mui Tsai who had left their employers.
7. On leaving the Kuk 226 persons were restored to husbands or other relatives, twenty-six were sent to charitable institutions in China, fourteen were given in adoption, three married, 288 were released after enquiries, sixteen were released under bond, and twelve were sent to a School, Convent or Refuge in the Colony. The number of inmates remaining in the Kuk on December 31st was forty.
8. Seventy-three cases of sickness were sent to the Tung Wah Hospital for treatment and of these four died.
9. The Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso, O.B.E., and Lieutenant-Colonel H. B. L. Dowbiggin, O.B.E., continued to serve in their capacity of Visiting Justices throughout the year.
10. The continued personal interest shown by Mrs. R. H. Kotewall and Mrs. S. W. Tso is much appreciated and is of genuine help to the Institution.