CIRCULAR. 
No. 2 in C. of L. 244/37. 
IDENTIFICATION CERTIFICATES. 
When issuing Identification Certificates to labourers returning to 
India employers are asked to take every care that these are entered 
up as accurately as possible—especially the particulars relating to 
identification. In a recent case of a boy who applied at Avadi the 
only identification mark given was k * Green spot on forehead . I he 
actual applicant, who after stringent enquiry turned out to be the 
correct person, was seriously stunted and deformed with a curved spine, 
the result of an accident in childhood. 
2. It is suggested that before employers issue Identification 
Certificates they should have the persons covered by them carefully 
examined by a doctor. 
Cases arise from time to time in which a man having spent a holiday 
in India applies at the Depot for his return passage but on his being 
medically examined it is found impossible to accept him for emigration 
on account of a disease which a careful examination before going on 
leave would have disclosed. This causes very great hardship as it 
frequently means that the man has a family in Malaya to whom he is 
unable to return and is also stranded without means. 
3. If, after examination by a doctor, a labourer who is proposing 
to return to India is found to be suffering from a disease which would 
prevent his return to this country he is in a position to decide whether 
to return with his family to India, giving up all idea of settling in 
this country or to be admitted to hospital for treatment in any case 
he will know the position and will have his savings intact. 
C. WILSON, 
Controller of Labour , Malaya . 
Labour Office, Kuala Lumpur, 
27 th July , 1937 . 
8074 — 5 , 000 — 2240 - 87 . 
