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however, been discovered through constant visits of the Inspectorate Staff that 770 Mui Tsai are not at present to be found at their registered addresses. 'Out of this total of 770, 169 could not be traced by

the Inspectors at the addresses given at the time of the original registration and the neighbours had

never heard of these girls, while 130 had been heard

of by the neighbours but were stated by them to have

married or in other cases to have returned with their

employers to China. These 299 have not yet been

removed from the registers, but if no further

information about them is obtained before my next

half-yearly report, I propose then to write them off.

There remain 471 who have been visited on

at least one occasion by the Inspectors, but

subsequent visits elicited the information that the

girls and their employers had removed to addresses

unknown without notifying the Authorities.

The importance of such notification is kept well before the public, not only by the efforts

of the Inspectors but also through the medium of the

vernacular press. The fact must be faced, however,

that in cases of permanent removals from the Colony, it is not to be expected that all employers will take the trouble to acquaint us with their purpose to remove themselves from our jurisdiction. We must rely on our unremitting efforts to discover the facts in each case.

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Anonymous reports of unregistered Mui Tsai are forwarded to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs from time to time by the Anti-Muitsai Society, but

the