APPENDIX 4
CHILD WELFARE SECTION
(Period 1st April, 1957 to 31st March, 1958)
Cases Under THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND JUVENILES Ordinance No. 1 or 1951
AND OTHER CHILDREN IN CARE
(See Paragraphs 24, 26 and 27)
1. Chinese Customary Adoption :
(a) Adopted daughters, compulsorily registered as wards (Section 31) *
Registered on 31st March, 1957
New registrations during the year Wardships terminated
***
Total registered on 31st March, 1958
(b) Adopted sons, voluntarily registered Registered on 31st March, 1957
New registrations during the year Registrations cancelled
Total registered on 31st March, 1958
2. Statutory Wards of the Director of Social Welfare *
FAT
:
Number of declared female wards on 31st March, 1957 (Section 32) Number of females declared as wards during the year
Total
:
1,804
144
116
1,832
1,411
99
29
1,481
140
22
162
Number of males made wards by order of the Juvenile Court during
the year
Number of male wards by order of the Juvenile Court on 31st March,
1957 (Section 35)
28
18
***
Total
46
Total number of Statutory Wards on 31st March, 1958
208
3. Other children in care t
4,202
Total number of children în care on 31st March, 1958
7,555
Number of home visits paid to children in care by staff of the Section ...
3,662
Notes:
* Legally wards of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs until the end of the calendar year 1957
(see paragraph 2).
+ Consisting of children found wandering or abandoned, ill-treated or uncontrollable, children of prisoners or hospital patients, children who are the object of a dispute between husband and wife or between natural and adoptive parents, etc.
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