APPENDIX 8
FAMILY SERVICES DIVISION
CLASSIFICATION OF PROBLEMS BEING DEALT WITH AS
AT THE END OF MARCH 1972
No. of Problems dealt with
Nature of Problem
Problems involving children and young persons |
Abandoned children
Wards of Director of Social Welfare:
Registered adopted girls
Declared wards
***
Wards by juvenile court orders
Customary adoption of boys
Illegitimate children .....
Juvenile mendicants ...
Ill-treatment of children
Behaviour problem of children
***
Behaviour problem of girls and young women Missing girls
Victims of indecent assault.
Proposed marriages of underaged 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
Physically disabled
Mentally retarded
Mentally ill
11
Ex-leper
T.B. sufferers
Ill health
Attempted suicide
Old age
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
Total
Total
Kowloon
District
Offices and
Sub-offices
New Territories District Offices and Sub-offices
Hong Kong District Offices and Sub-offices
Total Problems as at
Intake
31.3.72
between 1.4.71- 31.3.72
SUNNABEUNE JÊZ, JAKNEENHNG A
9
88
234
15
5
11
3
3
55
195
27
5
3
13
213
45
133
76
120
195
78
46
I
39
113
243
159
381
9
28
311
454
1,314
755
12
34
9
18
411
695
2,645
54
255
123
153
505 179
5
49
78
9 225
2
2
9
1,062
165
2,346
60
329
1,020
1,117
10
6
4
39
24
55
254
COWORN EBENE ABCUs -50-nun-a
27
27
216
333
1,164
128
17
10
59
452
1,147
135
122
198
503
1,499
1,063
2 88899+**** *** * * *
35
42
3
18
11
30
16
23
271
516
216
23
14
84
3
578
270
272
221
330
651
190
16
90
496
1,005
41
73
55
8,994
2,869
6,199
18,062
13,728
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