CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931 — Page 59

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that so far there has been nothing to show that the

fiction of amotion is being used to evade

responsibility i posed by the laws regarding the

ui-tsai and there would appear to be at the moment

10 necessity to take action on this particular

AZounJ8.

Finally, if sir John Simon foll wa the

Haclewoods, he may raise the matter of dead boules

found in the hong kong streets with the implication

that there is some connection with the Kui-tagi

question.

The number of unknown dead boaies

found by the police in the streets and elsewhere in

the last five years are as follows:-

1928. 1926. 1987

1926

1929.

Chiluren.

1136

1020

1165

1516

1851

Adults.

345

94

3132

164

182

Ample facilities are provided by Goverment for free burial of destitute persons and the question

of dumping boules in the street cannot. in the majority of uses be accounted for by mure poverty

and ignorance. So far as boules o: auults are

concerned, there is little douot that the primary object is to escape roal or feared inconvenience

from disinfectione

of the preriaus by the senitary

Department. This view is borne out by the fact

that a considerable proportion of bo.ius found

are those of persons who have died of smallpox. The

true

ease would appear to be in the case of children

to a. even greater degree.

The death rate an

the