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convictions for offences against this Ordinance to which refe-
-rence was made in my Despatch No. 93 dated the lat. instant 474rence
forwarding the criminal statistics for the year is evidence of
this vigilance. I will ascertain whether public opinion is in
favour of the amendments to the Ordinance suggested by Mr.
Brewin.
4.
The Protector of Chinese in the
Straits Settlements is shortly coming to this Colony to con-
-sider with the Registrar-General and Harbour Master here
whether it would not be possible to remove some of the restric-
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the abuses that still exist in the trade
5.
The population of the whole Colony as
estimated for the Old Territory and New Kowloon on the 30th.
June, 1904, and according to the Census for the remainder taken
in 1901,
is 446,217.
6.
The death rate per 1,000 for the year
which is lower than any recorded in the last 10 years and the
decrease in the number of out-patients treated in the Tung Wa
Hospital are evidences of a healthy year.
7.
The report on that Hospital, which I
inspected on the 13th. September last, is satisfactory from the
financial point of view, and so long as its Directors confine
themselves
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