APPENDIX 8
FAMILY SERVICES DIVISION
CLASSIFICATION OF PROBLEMS BEING DEALT WITH AS At 31 March 1968
No. of problems dealt with
Kowloon
Eastern
Nature of Problem
District
District
Total
Western
Office &
Office &
District
Family
Family
Office
Services
Services
Centres
Centre
young persons
Problems involving children and
Abandoned children
254
Wards of Director of Social
Welfare:
Registered adopted girls
2,650
Declared wards...
96
Wards by juvenile court orders
103
Customary adoption of boys
969
322
Illegitimate children
20
Juvenile mendicants
49
Ill-treatment of children
81
Behaviour problem of children
Behaviour problem of girls and
young women
Victims of indecent assault
boys and girls
414
229
1,129
73
Proposed marriages of underaged
22
4
Unmarried parents
156
207
Children and women emigrants
Other children in need of care or
protection
873
724
Others
263
ON EN 3 NAPARQUE &
95
23
372
748
35
97
44
62
43
502
62
26
8
133
9a9EZE 28 182 88
440
3.838
22
153
12
212
277
1,568
11
75
18
129
28
152
171
814
130
1,761
22
157
48
50
413
133
460
93
2,057 489
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Problems involving physical or
mental health
Blind
1,556
297
286
2,139
Deaf
739
324
237
1,300
Physical disabled
1,979
374
254
2,607
Mentally retarded
1,622
912
551
3,085
Mentally ill
969
464
155
1,588
Ex-leper
311
31
37
379
T.B. sufferers
1,457
251
179
1,887
Ill health
2,505
606
243
3,354
Old age
Others
3,526
818
616
4,960
Attempted suicide..
Problems involving family relation-
ships
Difficulties in family relationships Child dispute
,,
92
160
59
311
398
78
45
521
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878
500
99
118
35
47
Others
74
17
959
1,477
200
10
101
Problems mainly financial
Financial difficulties
11,084
2,068
1,758
14,910
Unemployment
2,744
656
385
3,785
Widows with dependants...
1,748
365
273
2,386
Legal aid sought
166
24
33
223
Workmen's compensation
407
135
61
603
Repatriation
4
3
5
12
Housing
1,358
198
131
1,687
Others
A
1,139
142
108
1,389
Total
42,026
11,795
7,454
61,275
73