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34
and
the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to
Children)
It is certainly a weak point in our
us
case that promised
(paragraph 8 of our despatch.
of August 29th quoted by Lord Passfield in his
speech in 36) that we would make regulations
providing for the remuneration inspection and
control of Mui tsi
+
In the absence of
detailed inspection.
remuneration and control
cannot be absolutely secured. The Governor
objects to Government inspectors on the score
of expense: this is not an argument we should
be very willing to use; and perhaps we might
ask him whether apart from the question of
expense it is feasi ble to arrange that
registered Mui Tsi should be seen by tire
hat offiur
once every 6 months.
It appears
from paragraph 9 of 35 that some Government
officer presumably the Secretary for Chinese
affairs has actually seen ong and spoken to
all the Mui tsi who have been registered.
The dead bodies of children found in the
streets of Hong Kong have only tais connection
with the Mui tsi system that some of them
might have been left alive if the Mui tsi
system had not been discouraged.
(Sgd) Walter D. Ellis.
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I attach:-
(a) An extract from the Berkshire Chronicle
of 27th March, containing Dr. Hastings' reply
to Lady Simon.
(b)
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