APPENDIX C.
REPORT OF THE REGISTRAR GENERAL.
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.
(Tables I and II.)
The revenue from all sources during the year was $104,138. On the first of July the collection of the revenue from Special Fruit Licences, Births and Deaths Registration, Laundries and Markets, was undertaken by the Sanitary Department, and the revenue from these sources is therefore only about half that obtained last year. The revenue from Hawkers' Licences though it shews an increase on the revenue for 1908 is not yet as high as it was in 1907. The number of licences issued in the six months ending the 31st March 1909 was 6,741. In the succeeding six months 3,311 new licences were issued and 4,158 old licences re-issued.
The expenditure was $43,793 compared with $43,848 in 1908, and fell short of the estimated expenditure by $2,152.
PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS.
(Table III.)
Women and Girls Protection Ordinance, No. 4 of 1897.
Po Leung Kuk Incorporation Ordinance, No. 6 of 1893.
The number of individuals detained under warrant was 280 as compared with 226 in 1908. They were all sent direct to the Po Leung Kuk, and the action taken in respect of them is shewn in Table III. The number of women whose detention was found to be unnecessary and who were released after enquiry was 87, or 31 per cent. The cases of 58 women were still under consideration at the close of the year. Six girls were sent under warrant to the Eyre Diocesan Refuge; of these four managed to escape, the remaining two are still in the Refuge. Two were sent under warrant to the Italian Convent. One is still there; the other has been restored to her husband. Both these institutions, which are places of Refuge under Ordinance No. 4 of 1897 have been visited by me, and the inmates inspected. The Eyre Diocesan Refuge moved into the Belilios Reformatory at Causeway Bay in September. The accommodation afforded is very much airier and roomier than what it was in the old premises at West Point and in every way more suitable. The number of inmates at the close of the year was 41.
In addition to those women and girls sent under warrant to the Po Leung Kuk a number of others are sent there with their consent. The total number of all classes sent in 1909 was 515. Of these, three were runaway maidservants.
APPENDIX C.
REPORT OF THE REGISTRAR GENERAL.
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.
(Tables I and II.)
The revenue from all sources during the year was $104,138. On the first of July the collection of the revenue from Special Fruit Licences, Births and Deaths Registration, Laundries and Markets, was undertaken by the Sanitary Department, and the revenue from these sources is therefore only about half that obtained last year. The revenue from Hawkers' Licences though it shews an increase on the revenue for 1908 is not yet as high as it was in 1907. The number of licences issued in the six months ending the 31st March 1909 was 6,741. In the succeeding six months 3,311 new licences were issued and 4,158 old licences re-issued.
The expenditure was $43,793 compared with $43,848 in 1908, and fell short of the estimated expenditure by $2,152.
PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS.
(Table III.)
Women and Girls Protection Ordinance, No. 4 of 1897.
Po Leung Kuk Incorporation Ordinance, No. 6 of 1893.
The number of individuals detained under warrant was 280 as compared with 226 in 1908. They were all sent direct to the Po Leung Kuk, and the action taken in respect of them is shewn in Table III. The number of women whose detention was found to be unnecessary and who were released after enquiry was 87, or 31 per cent. The cases of 58 women were still under consideration at the close of the year. Six girls were sent under warrant to the Eyre Diocesan Refuge; of these four managed to escape, the remaining two are still in the Refuge. Two were sent under warrant to the Italian Convent. One is still there; the other has been restored to her husband. Both these institutions, which are places of Refuge under Ordinance No. 4 of 1897 have been visited by me, and the inmates inspected. The Eyre Diocesan Refuge moved into the Belilios Reformatory at Causeway Bay in September. The accommo- dation afforded is very much airier and roomier than what it was in the old premises at West Point and in every way more suitable. The number of inmates at the close of the year was 41.
In addition to those women and girls sent under warrant to the Po Leung Kuk a number of others are sent there with their consent. The total number of all classes sent in 1909 was 515. Of these, three were runaway maidservants.
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