APPENDIX 8
FAMILY SERVICES DIVISION
CLASSIFICATION OF PROBLEMS BEING ACTIVELY DEALT WITH AS AT THE END OF MARCH 1969
No of problems dealt with
North Kowloon
Kowloon
Eastern
District
District
Nature of Problem
District
Western
Total
Office and
Office and
Office and
District
Family
Family
Family
Office
Services
Services
Services
Centres
Centre
Centre
Problems involving children
and young persons
Abandoned children
49
6
11
8
74
Wards of Director of Social
Welfare:
Registered adopted girls...
422
Declared wards ..
14
Wards by juvenile court
orders
46
Customary adoption of boys
107
Illegitimate children
21
Juvenile mendicants
9
Ill-treatment of children
16
£© =NN°°
136
245
149
1
15
12
1
51
14
22
89
31
32
10
5
10
Behaviour problem of
children
135
34
107
93
Behaviour problem of
girls and young women.
209
95
153
68
Victims of indecent assault...
8
1
6
2
Proposed marriages of
underaged boys and girls
1
3
Unmarried parents
41
12
62
Children and women
emigrants
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22 122 * con
952
42
112
249
57
30
44
369
525
17
10
124
Other children in need of
care or protection
364
Others
90
1 82
86
474
116
24
59
Problems involving physical or
mental health
Blind
420
70
123
145
Deaf....
122
46
113
Physical disabled
361
109
198
125
Mentally retarded
369
90
320
159
Mentally ill
211
25
167
Ex-leper
Ill health
55
15
11
TB sufferers
312
118
151
694
158
377
312
Old age
1,018
211
472
473
Attempted suicide
13
4
48
Others
36
55
20 90000 ROK
1,040
25
198
758
94
375
793
938
59
462
6
87
86
667
1,541
2,174
10
75
25
117
Problems involving family
relationships
Difficulties in family
relationships
172
Child dispute
Others
22*
59
26
***
232
131
594
4
20
8
10
New
53
20
Problems mainly financial
Financial difficulties
3,119
907
1,232
1,264
6,522
Unemployment
385
110
262
149
906
Widows with dependants
401
198
193
125
917
Legal aid sought
68
27
17
3
115
Workmen's compensation...
49
23
42
29
143
Repatriation
Housing
315
152
119
79
665
Others
199
44
136
61
440
Total
9,889
2,804
5,625
3,887
22,205
60
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