CO129-551-2 Mui Tsai system 30-11-1934 - 22-11-1935 — Page 98

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As suggested in paragraph 83 of Dir Gcorge

Maxwell's memorandum on the Muitsai System in Hong Kong

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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

92613

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not "pul" by

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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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