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Welfare Centres.
Details
APPENDIX 8
The principal activities undertaken or developed at the six Social Welfare Office urban Welfare Centres, in addition to the Kaifong work, were
1948/49
1949/50 1950/51 1951/52 1952/53 1953/54
Notes
Average daily number of free meals issued
(excluding emergency Relief work)
Additional meals cooked and served as
2,159
1,675
1,845
1,127.2
1,335
1,768.8 (a)
an emergency relief measure for the victims of fires
Nil
412,310
Average % over the year of Women
food recipients
41%.
36.8%
185,800
35%
256,640 | 2,816,250 | 15,202,331
30.3%
Average % over the year of Juvenile
(under 16) food recipients.....
57%
60.7%
64%
67.5%
30.25%
67% !
28.97% (a) (b)
67.87% (b)
Total revenue collected for government
(from scraps sold to pig-dealers) Total number of applications for help
$842
$1,476 $1,167.20
$543.05 $1,965.07
$2,515.35(c)
other than food
2,137
5,646
1,922
617
5,722
6,383 (d)
Total number family cases handled.
223
195
227
147
374
236 (d)
Total number destitutes repatriated
99
76
48
19
30
27 (d)
Total number free letter services performed
850
536
580
579
1,105
901 (d)
Total number persons found employment Total number miscellaneous other services.
performed
85
126
53
118
204
202 (d)
1,048
322
1,353
399
3,977
4,391 (d)
Total number would-be suicides advised
and helped
58
30
22
39
62
668 (d)
(a) Only destitute unemployables eligible; a woman unable to seek work on account of her children is classed as
unemployable.
(b) Remainder made up of decrepit or disabled adult males.
(c) By the sale of scraps or scourings to pig-dealers; no charge of any sort is made to anyone who comes to any of
the six centres.
(d) ie. at the Welfare Centres only; these figures do not include similar applications received or services rendered by
other branches of the Social Welfare Office or of the Relief Section.
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