Annual report on Sierra Leone / Colonial Office.

  • Great Britain. Colonial Office.
Date:
[1958]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report on Sierra Leone / Colonial Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Immigration and Passport Control The number of passports and other travel documents issued during 1958 compared with 1957 was as follows: 1957 1958 Passports. 889 1,041 Travel Certificates ...... 1,639 1,294 Seamen’s Certificates of Nationality and Identity . 229 416 Seamen’s Identity ...... 15 29 Emergency Certificates ..... 269 295 3,041 3,075 Two hundred and eighty-one passports, 293 Travel Certificates and 45 Seamen’s Certificates of Nationality and Identity were renewed. Eighty-four full visas and 18 transit visas were issued. Revenue derived from Immigration and Passport Control amounted to £1,734 10s. 6d. The following persons, excluding West Africans, entered and left Sierra Leone by sea, land and air: 1957 1958 Entered Left Entered Left British Subjects . 2,778 2,683 3,122 3,401 Americans 277 277 311 283 Austrians . 2 4 4 6 Belgians . 4 5 7 9 Brazilians . 2 2 — — Czechs 6 5 9 10 Danish 21 27 52 56 Dutch 42 40 58 56 Egyptians . — — 1 1 French 201 199 241 235 Finns 3 3 46 — Germans . 37 35 59 52 Greeks 19 19 22 15 Hungarians 2 2 — — Indians 67 68 136 140 Israelis — — 11 11 Italians 108 71 114 128 Japanese . 9 9 5 5 Jordanians 3 3 3 4 Lebanese and Syrians 492 487 398 357 Liberians . 140 206 235 216 Norwegians 6 7 13 14 Poles 4 4 6 6 Portuguese 4 4 3 3 Russians . — — 1 1 Sinhalese . — — 1 1 Spanish 2 2 16 4 Sudanese . 1 1 — — Swedes 8 9 18 17 Swiss 36 49 75 59 Stateless . _ — 2 2 Turks 4 3 — — 4,278 4,224 4,969 5,092