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in the hands of their relatives. Up to the 31st December, 18 in all were received, 15 being sent from the Alice Memorial Hospital and 3 from the Police. Of these,
6 had come to Hongkong for treatment,
2 were on a visit,
7 were living in Hongkong,
2 were I think, Hongkong born, and
2 were found not to be lepers.
All had relatives and were sent out of the Colony, and warned
not to return.
The Rhenish Leper Asylum at Tung Kun kindly received one leper who had been admitted into the Tung Wa, but the asylum is now full and unable to entertain any more applications for admission. The Government of Macao also kindly consented to receive one leper maidservant into the asylum at Coloane.
Under the arrangements made with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs at Singapore, 62 Chinese who were repatriated from the Straits Settlements, were sent off to their destination in China and given travelling expenses.
Similar arrangements to those entered into last year with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs regarding the repatriation of sick and decrepit Chinese, have now been made with the Protector of Chinese for British North Borneo.
The Registrar General's Office continues to co-operate in the prevention of grass fires. All permits issued to persons to proceed in procession to worship at the tombs are endorsed with a warning that no permit will be issued in future if a grass-fire is started. An offer by the District Watchmen Committee to supply 10 District Watchmen and to hire 30 coolies to assist the Botanical and Forestry Department in preventing grass-fires at the next tomb-worshipping festival, has been accepted.
In March the attention of the Government was invited by a large number of Chinese gentlemen connected with the Po Leung Kuk to the numerous cases in which prosecutions under the Magistrates Amendment Ordinance No. 19 of 1903 failed, and to the frequency of cases of "pigeon-flying", i.e., selling a small girl and then claiming her again. The Ordinance was amended as far as was possible, but the real remedy against pigeon-flying lies I think, in the hands of the Chinese themselves. There would be no chance of it, if households in want of maidservants took more precautions and declined to enter into negotiations with unknown persons.
The Anti-spitting Society—to give it a short name—has continued to display activity. Lecturers have been engaged to lecture on the river-steamers, handbills were printed and three men engaged to deliver a handbill with a few words of explanation to anyone expectorating in the street, and some thousands of notice boards were prepared and affixed to walls and trees all over Victoria, asking people to spit in the gutters and not on the sidewalk.
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in the hands of their relatives. Up to the 31st December, 18 in all were received, 15 being sent from the Alice Memorial Hospital and 3 from the Police. Of these,
6 had come to Hongkong for treatment,
2 were on a visit,
7 were living in Hongkong,
2 were I think, Hongkong born, and
2 were found not to be lepers.
All had relatives and were sent out of the Colony, and warned
not to return.
The Rhenish Leper Asylum at Tung Kun kindly received one leper who had been admitted into the Tung Wa, but the asylum is now full and unable to entertain any more applications for admission. The Government of Macao also kindly consented to receive one leper maidservant into the asylum at Coloane.
Under the arrangements made with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs at Singapore, 62 Chinese who were repatriated from the Straits Settlements, were sent off to their destination in China and given travelling expenses.
Similar arrangements to those entered into last year with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs regarding the repatriation of sick and decrepit Chinese, have now been made with the Protector of Chinese for British North Borneo.
The Registrar General's Office continues to co-operate in the pre- vention of grass fires. All permits issued to persons to proceed in procession to worship at the tombs are endorsed with a warning that no permit will be issued in future if a grass-fire is started. An offer by the District Watchmen Committee to supply 10 District Watch- men and to hire 30 coolies to assist the Botanical and Forestry Depart- ment in preventing grass-fires at the next tomb-worshipping festival, has been accepted.
In March the attention of the Government was invited by a large number of Chinese gentlemen connected with the Po Leung Kuk to the numerous cases in which prosecutions under the Magistrates Amendment Ordinance No. 19 of 1903 failed, and to the frequency of cases of "pigeon-flying", i.e., selling a small girl and then claim- ing her again. The Ordinance was amended as far as was possible, but the real remedy against pigeon-flying lies I think, in the hands of the Chinese themselves. There would be no chance of it, if households in want of maidservants took more precautions and declined to enter into negotiations with unknown persons.
The Anti-spitting Society-to give it a short name-has con- tinued to display activity. Lecturers have been engaged to lecture on the river-steamers, handbills were printed and three men engaged to deliver a handbill with a few words of explanation to anyone ex- pectorating in the street, and some thousands of notice boards were prepared and affixed to walls and trees all over Victoria, asking people to spit in the gutters and not on the sidewalk.
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