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The total number of persons reported missing, including reports from China and Macao, was 395. Of these, 75 were reported to have been found. The corresponding figures for 1909 were 390 and 50. (For 1908, 181 and 48.)
The timidity and docility of Chinese girls make them an easy prey to procuresses. In one case a respectable little girl of 15 was taken (it is needless to give the details of the conspiracy) to Sandakan, and thence to Singapore, and put into a brothel. She was recognised on the voyage from Sandakan to Singapore, and word sent home to her father in Macao. A report of the case was sent by me to the Chinese Protectorate at Singapore, but the girl when questioned adhered to some fabricated story taught her by the procuress, and denied all knowledge of her father; he then went to Singapore himself, and on his appearance, the girl admitted everything, and returned with him to China. I saw her on her return and was satisfied of the bona fides of the case,
The Po Leung Kuk has temporarily received into its home several women sent back to China by the local Benevolent Societies in Siam and in French Indo-China. In Siam particularly, the Society appears to be very active. The Italian Convent has kindly received 3 of the women, who were of weak intellect.
All the Convents have been visited by me according to instructions.
The Annual Report of the Po Leung Kuk Society will be found in Annexe A to the report.
EMIGRATION.
Emigration Ordinance No. 1 of 1889. (i.)-Emigration of Women and Children. (Table IV.)
The number of women and children passengers examined and allowed to proceed was 16,806 as compared with 11,686 in 1909. There is an increase of 4,971 in passengers going to the Straits Settlements; a decrease of 27 in those going to the American Continent, and an increase of 156 in those going to the Dutch Indies.
The rate at which the passengers were examined was about 81 per hour.
One hundred and three (103) or .61 per cent. of the passengers were detained for enquiries, as against 112 or .96 per cent. in 1909. Of these, 5 cases were still under consideration at the end of the year. Of the remaining 98, 26 (27 per cent.) were ultimately allowed to leave without any order being made.
A record is kept of the occupations of female emigrants. Out of 10,875 over 16 years of age, 6,562 were going with their husband or other relative, or to join relatives; 3,127 gave their occupations as servants, 535 as seamstresses and 552 as prostitutes.
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The total number of persons reported missing, including reports from China and Macao, was 395. Of these, 75 were reported to have been found. The corresponding figures for 1909 were 390 and 50. (For 1908, 181 and 48.)
The timidity and docility of Chinese girls make them an easy prey to procuresses. In one case a respectable little girl of 15 was taken (it is needless to give the details of the conspiracy) to Sandakan, and thence to Singapore, and put into a brothel. She was recognised on the voyage from Sandakan to Singapore, and word sent home to her father in Macao. A report of the case was sent by me to the Chinese Protectorate at Singapore, but the girl when questioned ad- hered to some frabricated story taught her by the procuress, and denied all knowledge of her father; he then went to Singapore him- self, and on his appearance, the girl admitted everything, and re- turned with him to China. I saw her on her return and was satisfied of the bonâ fides of the case,
The Po Leung Kuk has temporarily received into its home several women sent back to China by the local Benevolent Societies in Siam and in French Indo-China. In Siam particularly, the Society appears to be very active. The Italian Convent has kindly received 3 of the women, who were of weak intellect.
All the Convents have been visited by ine according to instruc- tions.
The Annual Report of the Po Leung Kuk Society will be found in Annexe A to the report.
EMIGRATION.
Emigration Ordinance No. 1 of 1889. (i.)-Emigration of Women and Children. (Table IV.)
The number of women and children passengers examined and allowed to proceed was 16,806 as compared with 11,686 in 1909. There is an increase of 4,971 in passengers going to the Straits Settlements; a decrease of 27 in those going to the American Con- tinent, and an increase of 156 in those going to the Dutch Indies.
The rate at which the passengers were examined was about 81
per hour.
One hundred and three (103) or '61 per cent. of the passengers were detained for enquiries, as against 112 or '96 per cent. in 1909. Of these, 5 cases were still under consideration at the end of the year. Of the remaining 98, 26 (27 per cent.) were ultimately allowed to leave without any order being made.
A record is kept of the occupations of female emigrants. Out of 10,875 over 16 years of age, 6,562 were going with their husband or other relative, or to join relatives; 3,127 gave their occupations as servants, 535 as seamstresses and 552 as prostitutes.
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