attended a short extra-mural course on Mental Health organized by the University.
C. COURSES ABROAD
13. Two members of the staff completed one-year courses at the London School of Economics in Social Science and Mental Health, while a third completed a one year course in moral welfare work at the Josephine Butler Memorial House, Liverpool. A fourth completed a six weeks' course in Sydney on the rehabilitation of cripples.
14. At the end of the year two members of the staff were still taking courses abroad, one in psychiatric social work at Edinburgh and one in social studies at Sydney University.
D.
CONFERENCES
15. Fourteen persons from Hong Kong, including the Director of Social Welfare, attended the Ninth International Conference of Social Work, which was held in Tokyo in the first week of December 1958. In connexion with this conference an exhibition centre was set up in Tokyo, at which were displayed photographs, maps and diagrams illustrating Hong Kong's population and social problems and the efforts being made to meet them.
16. The Department was also represented by members of the staff at the Study Conference of the International Union for Child Welfare held in Tokyo in November 1958, and at the Pan-Pacific Conference on Rehabilitation in Sydney in the same month.
CHAPTER III
INFANT AND CHILD WELFARE
17. The Director of Social Welfare has statutory responsibilities under the Protection of Women and Juveniles Ordinance, No. 1 of 1951, for children in need of care and protection, many of whom are made wards of the Director, and for children whose adoption in accordance with Chinese custom is registered with the department. The number of wards and adopted children registered under the Ordinance at the end of the year was 3,236.
18. These statutory duties and powers are exercised by the Child Welfare Section of the department, which also has a responsibility for the welfare of all infants and children under the primary school age
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