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being forced into prostitution. The names of 10 girls were struck off the list, of whom 2 were married and 8 were sent back to their relatives. The number of names on the list on 31st December, 1918, was 16 as compared with 22 on January 1st, 1918.
5. The number of persons reported by Hongkong residents to the Po Leung Kuk as missing during the year was 60 of whom 28 were found as compared with 60 and 50 in 1917. The total number of persons reported missing, including reports from China and Macao, was 89 of whom 31 were found, as compared with 63 out of 111 in 1917.
EMIGRATION.
Asiatic Emigration Ordinance No. 30 of 1915.
(i.)—EMIGRATION of Women and Children, (Free).
(Table IV.)
6. The number of women and children passengers examined and allowed to proceed was 5,366 (women 3,013, girls 404, and boys under sixteen 1,949) as compared with 16,709 in 1917. These figures show a very great decrease in this type of emigration, for which the shipping shortage, and the prohibition for seven months of the immigration of deck passengers into Singapore, are responsible.
7. The record of the occupations of the women emigrants over sixteen shows that out of a total of 3,013, 1,097 were going to join relatives, 763 were going with husbands or other relatives, 182 gave their occupation as tailoresses, 309 as prostitutes, 121 as market gardeners or farmers, 186 as cooks, and 308 stated they were going to "do work", some as nurses or maid-servants, some on plantations, and others in tin mines, etc. There were also 6 teachers, 16 hair-dressers, 10 nuns, 9 travellers, and 6 repatriated by Government.
8. Fifteen or 0.27% of the total number of women and children emigrants were detained for enquiries as against 40 or 0.23% in 1917. Of these, 3 were allowed to proceed after enquiry, and of the remainder, who were kept temporarily in the Po Leung Kuk, 1 was restored to her relatives, 10 were sent to their native places, and 1 remained in the Po Leung Kuk at the end of the year, her case being under consideration.
9. There was no application for the recovery of women or girls who had emigrated. 5 women or girls were sent back from Singapore and 5 from Penang on suspicion, or returned of their own accord, 9 of them were given assistance in proceeding to their homes, and 1 was handed over to her relatives under bond. Women who had gone to the Straits Settlements to practise prostitution were sent back as being too young, 1 left the ship on her arrival here and never came to the office, 2 were sent to the Po Leung Kuk for disposal, and the rest were allowed to proceed to their destinations.
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being forced into prostitution. The names of 10 girls were struck off the list, of whom 2 were married and 8 were sent back to their relatives. The number of names on the list on 31st December, 1918, was 16 as compared with 22 on January 1st, 1918.
5. The number of persons reported by Hongkong residents to the Po Leung Kuk as missing during the year was 60 of whom 28 were found as compared with 60 and 50 in 1917. The total number of persons reported missing, including reports from China and Macao, was 89 of whom 31 were found, as compared with 63 out of 111 in 1917.
EMIGRATION.
Asiatic Emigration Ordinance No. 30 of 1915.
(i.)—EMIGRATION of Women and Children, (Free).
(Table IV.)
6. The number of women and children passengers examined and allowed to proceed was 5,366 (women 3,013, girls 404, and boys under sixteen 1,949) as compared with 16,709 in 1917. These figures show a very great decrease in this type of emigration, for. which the shipping shortage, and the prohibition for seven months of the immigration of deck passengers into Singapore, are respon- sible.
7. The record of the occupations of the women emigrants over sixteen shows that out of a total of 3,013, 1,097 were going to join relatives, 763 were going with husbands or other relatives, 182 gave their occupation as tailoresses, 309 as prostitutes, 121 as market gardeners or farmers, 186 as cooks, and 308 stated they were going to "do work", some as nurses or maid-servants, some on plantations, and others in tin mines, etc. There were also 6 teachers, 16 hair-dressers, 10 nuns, 9 travellers, and 6 repatriated by Government.
8. Fifteen or 27% of the total number of women and children emigrants were detained for enquiries as against 40 or 23% in 1917. Of these, 3 were allowed to proceed after enquiry, and of the remainder, who were kept temporarily in the Po Leung Kuk, 1 was restored to her relatives, 10 were sent to their native places, and 1 remained in the Po Leung Kuk at the end of the year, her case being under consideration.
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9. There was no application for the recovery of women or girls who had emigrated. 5 women or girls were sent back from Singapore and 5 from Penang on suspicion, or returned of their own accord, 9 of them were given assistance in proceeding to their homes, and 1 was handed over to her relatives under bond. women who had gone to the Straits Settlements to practise prostitu- tion were sent back as being too young, 1 left the ship on her arrival here and never came to the office, 2 were sent to the Po Leung Kuk for disposal, and the rest were allowed to proceed to their destinations.
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