A. 1.
APPENDIX 5
CHILD WELFARE SECTION
CASES UNDER THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND JUVENILES ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1951 and othER CHILDREN IN CARE
PERIOD: 1ST APRIL, 1960 TO 31ST MARCH, 1961 (See paragraphs 24 and 25)
Wards of the Director of Social Welfare
(a) Females adopted under Chinese custom and on the register
as wards on 1st April, 1960 (Section 31)
New registrations during the year
1,695
Wardships terminated during the year
57
1,752 123
Total (females)
1,629
(b) Females declared as wards and remaining wards on 1st
April, 1960 (Section 32)
180
Wards declared during the year
10
190
***
Wardships by declaration terminated during the year
Total (females)
(c) Wards by order of the Juvenile Court on 1st April, 1960
(Section 35) Made wards by Order of the Juvenile Court during the year
7
183
***
55
females males
Juvenile Court Orders cancelled
Total
Total number of wards of the
Director of Social Welfare on 31st March, 1961
24
15
94
3
91
1,903
2.
3.
Males adopted under Chinese custom and voluntarily registered
On the register on 1st April, 1960 New registrations during the year
Registrations cancelled during the year
Other children in care on 31st March, 1961*
Children referred to institutions Children in families
1,434
12
1,446
57
Total (males)
1,389
625
A
4,883
Total
5,508
Grand Total
8,800
B. Official Visits
Number of visits paid by staff of the Section to children in care
during the period
8,239
C. Interviews at office
26,700
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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