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The months of March and April were the most popular for emigration. A great falling off in numbers occurred during July and August owing to strike conditions, the emigrants being prevented from travelling from their homes in the country to Hongkong.
The Asiatic Emigration Ordinance (Sections 25-28) requires that all Asiatic Steerage passengers embarking on vessels bound for certain ports and the crews of these vessels, must be examined by the Health Officer prior to departure and those found medically unfit are not allowed to proceed.
The total number of rejections was 756 and the cause of their rejection is outlined in Table III. All emigrant vessels must be provided with a hospital on board, certain surgical instruments and a supply of drugs. These are liable to inspection by the Health Officer before the ship sails.
Asiatic emigrants are classified as follows:-
(a) Free emigrants are those who pay their own fares, are under no contract of service and can return when they please. 95,440 free emigrants left during the year.
(b) Assisted emigrants to the number of 10,158 left, mainly for work in the sugar plantations of Java and Hawaii, the tin mines and rubber plantations of the Straits Settlements, the timber forests and oil fields of Borneo or in the nitrate deposits of certain islands in the South Seas. These men have their fares paid by their employers and are engaged by contract for one to three years.
(c) Women and children. These consist largely of the wives and families of the emigrants.
III.-QUARANTINE DUTY.
All vessels arriving from "infected" ports and those having infectious or suspicious cases on board, fly the "Q" flag and go to the Quarantine anchorage for examination. The number of vessels arriving in quarantine was 427 with 49,392 passengers and crews of 46,906 compared with 16,586 and 14,868 respectively last year. They underwent medical examination and vaccination when bound from a small pox infected port. The monthly returns of quarantine ships are given in Table V.
Of these 427 steamers 11 were detained in quarantine, for details see Table IV. The cause of detention was small pox in eight cases and cholera in three cases:
Fumigation and disinfection of these vessels and of the clothing and personal effects of all on board were carried out.
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M (1) 73
The months of March and April were the most popular for cmigration. A great falling off in numbers occurred during July and August owing to strike conditions, the emigrants being pre- vented from travelling from their homes in the country to Hongkong.
The Asiatic Emigration Ordinance (Sections 25-28) requires that all Asiatic Steerage passengers embarking on vessels bound for certain ports and the crews of these vessels, must be examined by the Health Officer prior to departure and those found medically unfit are not allowed to proceed.
The total number of rejections was 756 and the cause of their rejection is outlined in Table III. All emigrant vessels must be provided with a hospital on board, certain surgical in- struments and a supply of drugs. These are liable to inspection by the Health Officer before the ship sails.
Asiatic emigrants are classified as follows:-
(a) Free emigrants are those who pay their own fares, are under no contract of service and can return when they please. 95,440 free emigrants left during the year.
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(b) Assisted emigrants to the number of 10,158 left, mainly for work in the sugar plantations of Java and Hawaii, the tin mines and rubber plantations of the Straits Settle- ments, the timber forests and oil fields of Borneo or in the nitrate deposits of certain islands in the South Seas. These men have their fares paid by their employers and are engaged by contract for one to three years.
(c) Women and children. These consist largely of the wives
and families of the emigrants.
III.-QUARANTINE DUTY.
All vessels arriving from "infected" ports and those having infectious or suspicious cases on board, fly the "Q" flag and go to the Quarantine anchorage for examination. The number of vessels arriving in quarantine was 427 with 49,392 passengers and crews of 46,906 compared with 16,586 and 14,868 respectively last year. They underwent medical examination and vaccination when bound from a small pox infected port. The monthly returns of quarantine ships are given in Table V.
Of these 427 steamers 11 were detained in quarantine, for details see Table IV. The cause of detention was small pox in eight cases and cholera in three cases:
Fumigation and disinfection of these vessels and of the clothing and personal effects of all on board were carried out.
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