TNAG-1274-FCO40-1624-Vietnamese-refugees-in-Hong-Kong-1983 — Page 212

布政司署

香港下亞畢道

本署檔號 OUR REF: (40) in CC/G/8 (C) VII

* YOUR REF: 243/1 dated 27.7.83

Tel No

: 5-271772

Miss Olivia Walker,

pa. 243/1

Security Branch

(121)

GOVERNment SECRETARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD

HONG KONG

Must have fring (this is a

creply to my letter of 27/7, at files

(17) 243/1)

9 August 1983

Hong Kong Department,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

London SW1A 2AH

АСК 243/1

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY

16 AUG 1083

DESK OFFICER

INDEX

REGISTRY

PA

Action Taken

Dear Olivia,

Vietnamese Refugees: Weekly Statistics

The

Your first surmise is the correct one. third week of July was a bumper one for reports of births (this does not mean that the births were necessarily recent: despite our publicity efforts, open centre residents sometimes fail to report births for several months). There were in fact 33 reported births between 12 and 19 July - 25 in Kai Tak and 8 in Jubilee. The net increase in open centre population of 27 is then derived if you deduct 6 cases: 4 transfers to Argyle Street for departure overseas, one settled in Hong Kong under normal immigration criteria, and one death.

There have been no movements from closed to open centres, in order to bring alleged family members together or for any other purpose: and from the cases so far presented, it is most unlikely that there will be any in the immediate future. However, we are about

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