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list, of whom one was married and the other sent back to her native place. The number of names on the list on the 31st December was 67 as compared with 56 on January 1st, 1914:
5. The number of persons reported by Hongkong residents to the Po Leung Kuk as missing during the year was 127 of whom 34 were found. These figures compare very favourably with those for 1913—167 and 33. The total number of persons reported missing, including reports from China and Macao, was 223, of whom 45 were found as compared with 43 out of 293 in 1913.
EMIGRATION.
Emigration Ordinance No. 1 of 1889,
(as amended by subsequent Ordinances).
(1.)—EMIGRATION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN, (FREE). (Table IV.)
6. The number of women and children passengers examined and allowed to proceed was 13,162 (women 8,158, girls 1,002, and boys under sixteen 4,002) as compared with 26,080 in 1913. The decrease in numbers, which may be said to have been entirely due to the war, affected all the ports to which such emigrants proceed, but the chief decrease is in the number of those proceeding to Singapore and Penang, 11,249 as compared with 23,318 in 1913, the Government of the Straits Settlements having on the outbreak of war entirely prohibited the immigration of all deck passengers from China. The figures for the first 7 months of the year were nearly up to the average for the last 3 years, but whereas the monthly average from January to July was 1,786, that for the 5 months, August to December, was only 119.
7. The record of the occupations of women emigrants over 16 shows that, of a total of 8,158, 5,240 were going with their husbands or other relatives, or to join relatives; 2,601 gave their occupations as maid-servants, 329 as tailoresses and 192 as prostitutes. There were also 10 hairdressers and 6 nuns.
8. 27 or '20% of the total number of women and children emigrants were detained for enquiries, as against 63 out of 26,080, or '24%', in 1913. Of these 17 were allowed after enquiry to proceed; and of the remainder, who were kept temporarily in the Po Leung Kuk, one was sent back to her home, and 9 were restored to their husbands or other relatives.
9. There were 12 applications for the recovery of women who had emigrated, and of the 14 persons missing, 5 returned and were restored to relatives, 6 could not be located, 2 refused to return, while one had died. 28 women sent back from the Straits Settlements on suspicion or returning of their own accord were given assistance in proceeding to their homes. Two other women who had been induced by false pretences to emigrate, the one to...
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list, of whom one was married and the other sent back to her native place. The number of names on the list on the 31st December was 67 as compared with 56 on January 1st, 1914:
5. The number of persons reported by Hongkong residents to the Po Leung Kuk as missing during the year was 127 of whom 34 were found. These figures compare very favourably with those for 1913-167 and 33. The total number of persons reported missing. including reports from China and Macao, was 223, of whom 45 were found as compared with 43 out of 293 in 1913.
EMIGRATION.
Emigration Ordinance No. 1 of 1889,
(as amended by subsequent Ordinances).
(1.)--EMIGRATION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN, (FREE). (Table IV.)
6. The number of women and children passengers examined and allowed to proceed was 13,162 (women 8,158, girls 1,002, and boys under sixteen 4,002) as compared with 26,080 in 1913. The decrease in numbers, which may be said to have been entirely due to the war, affected all the ports to which such emigrants proceed, but the chief decrease is in the number of those proceeding to Singapore and Penang, 11,249 as compared with 23,318 in 1913, the Government of the Straits Settlements having on the outbreak of war entirely prohibited the immigration of all deck passengers from China. The figures for the first 7 months of the year were nearly up to the average for the last 3 years, but whereas the monthly average from January to July was 1,786, that for the 5 months, August to December, was only 119,
7. The record of the occupations of women emigrants over 16 shows that, of a total of 8,158, 5,240 were going with their husbands or other relatives, or to join relatives; 2,601 gave their occupations as maid-servants, 329 as tailoresses and 192 as prostitutes. There were also 10 hairdressers and 6 nuns.
8. 27 or '20% of the total number of women and children emi- grants were detained for enquiries, as against 63 out of 26,080, or 24 %, in 1913. Of these 17 were allowed after enquiry to proceed; and of the remainder, who were kept temporarily in the Po Leung Kuk, one was sent back to her home, and 9 were restored to their husbands or other relatives.
9. There were 12 applications for the recovery of women who had emigrated, and of the 14 persons missing, 5 returned and were restored to relatives, 6 could not be located, 2 refused to return, while one had died. 28 women sent back from the Straits Settle- ments on suspicion or returning of their own accord were given assistance in proceeding to their homes. Two other women who had been induced by false pretences to emigrate, the one to
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