U-2-
98
(15) in Piz 3.
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34
As suggested in paragraph 83 of Dir Gcorge
Maxwell's memorandum on the Muitsai System in Hong Kong
JA
table classifying the girls by ages has been compiled from
the Register. A copy of the detailed table is appended to
this despatch but the figures may be summarized as follows:-
Under 15
975
Between 15 and 18
Over 18
•
•
•
1,031
285
2,291
(11) in
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32
•
not "pul" by
a
pd
4(a).
The careful checking of the Register entailed
in the compilation of the above table of ages has revealed a
numerical error which, in order to preserve the continuity
of the figures given in these six-monthly reports, has now been rectified by "writing off" 20 hypothetical girls from the Register (item (ix) in paragraph 1 above).
above). The error
arose in the addition of those figures in the Register on
the basis of which the total of "Muitsai registered but
never visited" was stated in the fifth paragraph of Mr. (now
Sir Thomas) Southorn's despatch No.321 of the 28th June,
1932, to have been 299. This figure should rightly have
pbread 279 and the figures in subsequent despatches should
(2) m 33792
have been reduced accordingly. The untraced girls in this
category now number 84, namely 92 (erroneously given as 112
in paragraph 2(b) of my despatch No.374 of the 26th June,
1934) less eight traced during the period now under review.
(b).
Of the 300 girls in the category "Muitsai registered and visited at least once" who were reported as still untraced in the same despatch, a further nineteen have been traced up to the 30th November, 1934, leaving 281 (300 less 19) still missing. I have also to record that up
to the 30th November, 1934, there was a further increase of
eighteen girls in the category "Muitsai reported by the
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