APPENDIX 8
FAMILY SERVICES DIVISION
CLASSIFICATION OF PROBLEMS BEING ACTIVELY DEALT WITH AS AT THE END OF MARCH 1970
Nature of Problem
No of problems dealt with
North Kowloon
Total Intake
Kowloon
Eastern
Western
Total
between
District
District
District
District
1.4.69-
Office and
Office and
Office and
Office
31.3.70
Sub-offices
Sub-office
Sub-office
Problems involving children and
young persons
Abandoned children
27
1
Wards of Director of Social
Welfare:
Registered adopted girls
355
Declared wards
Wards by juvenile court orders
Customary adoption of boys
Illegitimate children
Juvenile mendicants
Ill-treatment of children
Behaviour problem of children
122
Behaviour problem of girls and
young women
386
Missing girls
Victims of indecent assault
Proposed marriages of under-
aged boys and girls
Unmarried parents
Children and women emigrants
397CZCAN 6AN NO
148
40
3
31
63
11
17
19
105
23
2
No ŵmalo-
19
6
73
213
88
* 22032 ga
7
89
9
125
863
31
8
61
Ι
17
111
4
64
6
152
20
I
41
25
28
11
33
15
67
363
235
62
766
375
21
1
133
80
2
18
30
20
1
1
4
4
11
41
10
98
$3
9
9
3
Other children in need of care
or protection
237
158
439
83
917
607
Others
54
13
46
12
125
324
Problems involving physical or
mental health
Blind
262
119
123
128
632
334
Deaf
158
73
112
55
398
194
Physical disabled
404
181
197
95
877
472
Mentally retarded
401
131
315
125
972
498
Mentally ill
134
43
151
47
375
232
Ex-leper
54
30
12
11
107
27
T.B. sufferers
316
162
120
81
679
301
Ill health...
658
384
386
363
1,791
967
Old age
1,218
443
544
581
2,786
1,238
Attempted suicide
25
3
51
13
92
78
Drug addicts
56
81
41
26
204
42
Others
46
23
11
80
127
Problems involving family
relationships
Difficulties in family
relationships
453
95
265
156
969
463
Child dispute
17
6
11
6
40
31
Others
21
*
8
10
43
30
Problems mainly financial
Financial difficulties
3,100
1,186
1,252
1.065
6,603
4,684
Unemployment
366
138
204
94
802
369
Widows with dependants
564
247
154
103
1,068
357
Legal aid sought
187
106
34
22
349
1,526
Workmen's compensation
56
36
15
110
117
Repatriation
4
18
Housing
362
236
175
Hawker Licences
109
120
50
Canadian pensioners
9
16
4
Others
175
15
132
Nasul
22
8
75
848
1,742
326
368
6
35
53
27
349
739
Total
10,580
4,511
5,724
3,565 24,380
16,814
54