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SURVEY OF LONG-HAIRED BECCARS
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SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1974.
THE NEW LIFE PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION BEGINS A SURVEY OF LONG-HAIRED BEGGARS IN THE STREETS OF HONG KONG TOMO.AKO
(SUNDAY).
THE SURVEY WILL BE CARRIED OUT BY A GROUP OF 120 STUDENTS FROM THE JUIL.GY DEPARTMENT OF THE HONG KONG BAPTIST COLLEGE, WHO HAVE TAKEN A COURSE 1.. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND HAVE RECEIVED A SPECIAL BRIEFING. PAIRED IN TAS OF TWO THEY WILL TOUR THE STREETS OF HONG KONG AND KOWLOON INTERVIEVING ANY LONG-HAIRED SEGGAR THEY SEE, USING A QUESTIONAIRE AND AN OBSERVATION RECORD FORM THAT HAS BEEN SPECIALLY COMPILED BY A GROUP OF PSYCHIATRISTS.
TEN CITY DISTRICT OFFICERS ARE CO-OPERATING IN THE PROJECT BY. PROVIDING INFORMATION ON DISTRICTS, STRELTS, ETC.
COMMENTING ON THE SURVEY, MR. LEO LEE, PRESIDENT OF NEW LIFE PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION, SAID THE ASSOCIATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE PIONEER IN THE VARIOUS TYPES OF REHABILITATION WORK FÜR MENTAL PATIENTS AND IS UNDERTAKING THIS PROJECT TO FIND OUT SUME FACTS IN RESPONSE TO A SUGGESTION FROM THE SOCIAL WELFARL DEPARTMENT.
+THE PROBLEM OF LONG-HAIRED BEGGARS HAS LONG BEEN REALIZED BY BOTH THE GOVERNMENT AND THE VOLUNTARY AGENCIES SUCH AS JUR ASSOCIATION. BUT OPINIONS VARIED GREATLY AS TO THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM. IS IT A MEDICAL PROBLEM OR A SOCIAL PROBLEM? ARE THESE PEOPLE MERELY BEGGARS, O. OF PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIOUR VARIANT, OR ACTUALLY MENTALLY ILL OR HENTALLY RETARDED? THIS IS WHAT WE HOPE TO FIND OUT, JUT FIRST OF ALL WE WILL BE STUDYING THE MAGNITUDE OF THE PROBLEM IN THIS ONE-DAY SCREENING SURVEY OF THE URJAN AREAS OF HONG KONG AND KOWLOON, + HE SAID.
THE RESULTS OBTAINED IN THE SURVEY WILL BE ANALYSED TO FINƆ JJT WHJ THESE PEOPLE ARE, WHETHER THEY HAVE HAD ANY HELP PREVIOUSLY, IF THEY CAN BE HILÁLD IN ANY WAY AND IF THEY ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT HELP.
THE ASSOCIATION PLANS EVENTUALLY TO TAKE INTO ITS CARE THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO BE HELPED. THIS MAY DE AT ITS FARM FÜR FORMERLY MENTALLY ILL PATIENTS DISCHARGED FRO: HOSPITALS. THE AIM WOULD BE TO ASSIST THEN AND PREPARE THEM FOR RE-INTEGRATION INTO SOCIETY. THE ASSOCIATION ALSO RUNS A HALF-WAY HOUSE FOR WOMEN AND ANOTHER FOR HEN AND A SHELTERED WORKSHOP.
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