CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931 — Page 38

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for suspicion that death resulted

from other than natural causes.

Every

case is reported to the coroner, but

in no single case in 1928 did he see

any necessity for a formal death

enquiry.

17. It is hardly necessary

to point out that this question has

no connection at all with the mui tsai

custom, and is not peculiar to Hong

Kong. In the Metropolitan

Police District about 700 dead

bodies are discovered annually in the

streets and other public places, of

which a considerable proportion

are those of newly born infants.

I am &c.,

(Signed) WAI TER D. ELLIS