DEAF WELFARE
73 The Hong Kong School for the Deaf has admitted twenty-three day pupils among its resident student body of a hundred and twenty-six, to help to ease the situation of deaf children waiting for adequate facilities for special education to be provided. An extension of its build- ing, consisting of a sick room and two domestic science and art rooms, was officially opened on 25 November. These were paid for by special government subvention and by private donations respectively. A sports meeting for nearly two hundred members of the four Social Welfare Department clubs for deaf children, which provide informal education and recreation for children not able to get into schools for the deaf, was held at the Boundary Street Sports Ground, Kowloon, on Guy Fawkes's Day. The Lei Cheng Uk club for deaf children removed to the new Tai Hang Tung Community Centre in March. Although there are over five hundred and seventy deaf children now in special schools, there are still two hundred and twenty-three deaf children on the register who are neither in a special school nor in a club. Last year thirty-eight children were given financial aid towards their schooling by Lutheran World Service, and another twenty-seven received hearing aids purchased with charitable funds, making a cumulative total of nearly two hundred and fifty. The department also found work for fifteen adult deaf people, most of them in textile factories.
PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED
74 The medical rehabilitation centre run by the Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation at Kwun Tong tries to restore disabled persons to at least partial working capacity as quickly as possible, and an extension to its workshop was begun in October. About sixty-five persons were under treatment there at the close of the year. The Princess Alexandra Children's Home, operated by the British Red Cross Society, is always filled to its capacity of sixty-two crippled children.
75 The Red Cross day school for physically handicapped children at Tsz Wan Shan resettlement estate which will have an eventual capacity of a hundred and twenty is nearing completion. The Pui Oi Club run by the Lutheran World Service with some help from this department opened in September. There are two dozen physically handicapped children in the club. Such organizations as these and the Children's Convalescent Home at Sandy Bay are beginning to feel the need of a hostel for dis- abled school-leavers. Vocational training centres for adults are run by
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