APPENDIX 8
FAMILY SERVICES DIVISION
CLASSIFICATION OF PROBLEMS BEING ACTIVELY DEALT WITH AS
AT THE END OF MARCH 1971
No of problems dealt with
North
Kowloon
Eastern
Western
Total Cases
Total Intake
Nature of Problem
Kowloon
District Office and
District
District
as at
between
District
Office and | Office and
31 March
1.4.70-
Office and
Sub-office
Sub-office
Sub-office
1971
31.3.71
Sub-office
Probation involving children and
young persons
Abandoned children...
16
12
55
55
14
97
30
Wards of Director of Social
Welfare:
Registered adopted girls
179
151
Declared wards
18
52
158
110
598
21
4
7
50
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Wards by juvenile court
orders
29
56
95
Customary adoption of boys
25
39
7
74
Illegitimate children
3
1
15
20
Juvenile mendicants
8
3
4
21
36
Ill-treatment of children
11
3
11
8
33
Behaviour problem of
children
158
115
81
61
415
242
Behaviour problem of girls
and young women
377
221
Missing girls
Victims of indecent assault
Proposed marriages of under-
aged boys and girls
Unmarried parents
Children and women
emigrants
Other children in need of
care or protection...
Others
Problems involving physical or
Mental health
Blind
Deaf
Physical disabled
Mentally retarded
Mentally ill
Ex-leper
Old age
T.B. sufferers
III health
Attempted suicide
Drug addicts
Others
Problems involving family
relationships
Difficulties in family
relationships
Child dispute...
Others
Problems mainly financial Financial difficulties Unemployment
Widow with dependants Legal aid sought
Workmen's compensation Repatriation
Housing
་་་
Hawker licences
Canadian pensioners Others
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133
13
9
32
158
BIBA LEE
187
69
854
451
29
11
301
167
5
9
10
37
wath £ 5.RM NÀ
31
4
2
1
16
5
26
83
64
242
275
145
37
178
110
72
86
56
161
160
86
345
246
251
145
131
47
78
36
10
4
73
54
37
194
251
94
172
135
146
7
16
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48
68
27
18
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S
LELEZO_UEUWEGEI
2
820
766
126
341
44
404
298
32
276
212
30
437
436
987
567
30
286
222
51
29
19
183
231
76
615
730
679
1,001
8
34
75
44
187
103
27
270
:
Total
203
408
145
128
413
194
22 AK-A
205
243
93
744
178
21
7
13
42
35
3
2
5
22
491
260
328
1,487
3,397
107
53
39
344
421
144
64
44
380
351
12
3
15
912
40
39
15
23
117
120
1
3
4
13
264
130
114
921
1,762
175
88
154
611
883
1
8
1
1
11
49
33
45
19
37
134
336
4,327
3,672
2,673
1,889
12,636
14,895
44