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The Commissioners emphatically agree with the view of Sir Cecil Clementi, Sir George Maxwell, the Loseby Committee and the League Nations Commission of Inquiry into rame in Women and Children in the East that "The mul taal, system, where sisituy fu cordance ath "clouds of Uncertain The numbers of mul tsai registered in Hongkong in 1080 were 4368, Of these, 2048 have since been struck off through marriage, death, leaving the Colony, etc. But of the 3,723 remain-ling on the registers last May, the Commission point out that, there are 811 "whose Where-abouts have been unknown for a long period, many of them never visited by an official of the Government since they were registered."
'Of the number of unregistered mui tsai, witnesses' evidence varied wildly from a few hundred to 10,000, The question the Commissioners say.
rapped in "clouds of uncertainty" inno accurate estimate can be formed "without a complete house torhouse census of girls and. pro-Yonged inquiry as to their elreumstances."
Conditions under which the gids live naturally vary, but it did "not appear to the Commissioners that the mul tsai whom they saw are any worse off than the families in which they lived, Ili Malaya, all Chinese appear much better off than in Hongkong and the mul tsai accordingly, also, as men in the F.M.S, outnumber women by two or three fo one, girls are more valuable, But the registration of mui {sai in Malaya appears to have grown very lax, wore publ intentions and desires addition to the recommendations already. mentioned for Malaya. id] Majority "Report campaign for detection of eases of employment of unregistered mul tsai." Other recommendations approximate to those for Hongkong.
Over 90 pages are devoted to a record of the efforts made in Hongkong to put an end to the mul {sal penetice, beginning as far back os ie
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