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7. 650 women, girls and children were admitted without warrant. Fifteen were lost children. Fourteen were accompanied by parents or guardians and 103 were maidservants or muitsai who had left their employers.
8. On leaving the Kuk 219 persons were restored to husbands or other relatives, eighty-four were sent to charitable institutions in China, nineteen were given in adoption, one was married, 139 were released after enquiries, twenty-seven were released under bond, and forty-two were sent to a School, Convent or Refuge in the Colony. The number of inmates remaining in the Kuk on December 31st was 196, which is more than double that of previous years.
9. 167 cases of sickness were sent to the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, three to the Queen Mary Hospital, two to the Mental Hospital, one to the Tsan Yuk Hospital, and one to the Lai Chi Kok Hospital for treatment, and of these seventeen died.
10. Dr. S. W. Tso, C.B.E., and Lieutenant-Colonel H. B. L. Dowbiggin, O.B.E., continued to serve as Visiting Justices throughout the year.
11. Mrs. M. K. Lo and Mrs. S. W. Tso paid regular visits of inspection during the year.