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HONGKONG REPORTS VERY
SUCCESSFUL YEAR.
HOSPITAL NEEDS.
Did sagt
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1934 --
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fed by the Sacinthe child was be prepared to faco an expenditure
A family of soven persona in-Inspector. We have now three cluding five children, was existing Inspectors and the work has on_a_total_monthly Incomo o greatly increased. $15.00. One of the children, aged, 18 months, was suffering from
Facing. Heavy Expenditure. marasmus and was as thin as a At a conservative estimate, and Akeleton. The Society's help was even if the work does not substan- Invoked by a Dispensary Doctor tially increase, the Society must and for six months
the end of of from $15,000 to $17,000. that time the doctor
reported that
Apart from tlio Govornment the child had grown up to be a
of $3,000 the Society is de- very healthy kid indeed. He added
voluntary contribu- had very little hope that the child Out of a population of would survive and that had it not 849,000 less than 300 persons con- over been for the assistance of the Se-tributed to the Society Inat year ciety the child would have gone and I would appeal for more gen to the grave long ago.
eral support, which is essential if the Society's work is to continue.
Expressions of satisfaction int that when he reported the case he w
another remarkably useful year's work had been accomplished, and that the financial position was both sound and a tribute to the officials, were made at the annual meeting of the Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children, hold in the City Hall under the prest | deney of H.E. Sir Willian: Peel yesterday afternoon.
taries).
It takes very few ennes of thal sort to justify the existence of the Society.
Medical Aid Benefits, His Excellency WAN accom- In the Report you will have read panied by Lady Peel, and officials that the Inspectors secured medi- of the Society present were ilen.cal, attention for 124 children. Sir Shouton Chaw (President), The value of this side of the Hon. Mr. H. R Kotowall (chair. Inspector's work can hardly be FLIKTA of Executive Committee), exaggerated, as, quite apart from Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, Hon. the saving of unnecessary suifer- Mr. J. P. Braga, Hor. Dr. S. Winx, it is only by caring for the Tho, Mr. F. N. Chau, and Mr. T.
health of the young that one can M. Hazlerigg (oint Hon. Secre- hope to ensure strong and healthy
adults. in proposine the adoption fufcient hospital accommolation The question of the provision of the report. Sir Shousan Chow
for children has been a matter of said:
Your Excellency, ladies and concern to the Society. The Re
porl on the Census shows that gentlemen. Before referring to
226,000 Chinese the Society's work during the past there are over
children under 16 years of nie. year I desire on behalf of the
Սր to the end of June the hospital members of the Society to express accommedation available won 183
appreciation of the high
beds and col honour which Your Excellency A
30 cats have, with the further has done to the Society by presid-assistance of the Society, been ing at this meeting.
at the Childrens Hos Your Excellency's keen interestpital at-Shamshufpo, and the Tung in the welfare of the community. Wah Eastern Hospital has this and particularly of the pour and mouth opened a special ward for suffering. is well known and children. alfords great encouragement to those who are striving to improve conditions.
star
Copies of the Society's Annual Report have been in your bands for some day and as the
Report gives a comprehensive review of the Society's activities during the past year it seems unnecessary
than touch
provided
cots.
The total accommodation is now just on 200 beds and cots and it is hoped that when the construe tion of the new Government Civil Hospital is undertaken the Gay- ernment will consider favourably the provision of at least one chil- dren's ward.
Overcrowding Peril.
for me to do more briefly on some of the work.
As long ago is 1904 a Com- You will recall that the Society
mittee appointed to enquire into was constituted only in January. the causen of infantile mortality 1930, and there seems some cause
in Hongkong pointed out that for pride in the fact that during overcrowding in Chinese dwell the second year of its
lifetings, with the inevitable sequel of should have dealt with no fewer want of cleanliness, was the great than 333 cases affecting the welcontributory cause.
fare of 562 children.
Tribute to Inspectors.
As President of the Society 1 deuire on behalf of the members to thank the Hon. Dr. Kotowal! for his services na Chirou of the Executive Committee.
Despite the many calls of his public duties Dr. Kotowall has devoted much tímo to the many problems with which the Society has had to deal and the Society is greatly indebted to him for his wlae guidance.
I now move that the Report and Accounts for the past year bc adopted.
Hon. Mr. Kotewall's Review. The Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, in suronding the adoption of the report, said:
Your Exarliency. Judies and gentlemen.-In seconding the mo- tion for the adoption of the report and accounts, f desire, in the first instance, to associate myself with Sir Shouson Chow in expressing grateful thanks to His Excellency the Governor for the practical in- by presiding terast he has shown by at this meeting.
ing The deep paily which His Excellency, and Indy Peel have for the children of the poor, and the active part which Lady Peel takes in alleviat ing their sufferings and generally promoting their welfare, deserve to be more widely known, if only for the high example they sot to
others.
sym-
Chlidren's Hospitals Nected.
80
The activities of the Society have been so fully covered by the annual report and by the Presi dent's address, that very little is left to me to deal with. I should like, however, to direct special at- tention to the lack of hospital ac commodation for children on both Though the figures of Infantila sides of the harbour. It seems to mortality appear to have been sub-me that the time has come when, stantially reduced during the past concurrently with the child-wel-
រិច thirty years, they are still very fare work which high indee
quietly and admirably in
under show that not one the Inspiring leadership of Lady half of the families with, which Pool, there should be instituted the Society has dealt had even the children's hospitals which, besides accommodation of a single room. helping to reduce infantile mor- This pelate to the continned tality, may go far towards abating I should like to take this oppor-existence of overcrowding as a that shameful practice of dump tunity of publicly paying tribute.cause of the toll upon infant life.ing the dead bodies of children in to the work of the inspectors and It is hardly to be expected that the streets. particularly to the yooman ser- vice rendered by Miss Seto Wai Sheung, the Society's first aspec tor, who, during the year under review, investigated 2338 cases.
It is an indication of the man- ner in which the inspectors have gained the confidence of the poor amongat whom
hom they work that considerably more than half of the cases have been reported by par unts
and members of the Public.
Our
People whose standards of living and accommodation are RO low should observe even the simplest principles of hygiene.
ill-trentment
has
It is pleasing to find that though It will be seen from the Report une minor cases of ill-treatment that over eighty per cent of the have been brought to the Society's ensen investigated were due to notice no single ense has been re- either poverty or disease, or Aported during the year in which combination of these two factors, really serious and these are clearly the major been found. problems which the Society has to face. In practically two thirds of the cases the monthly family in- come, worked out at $4 or under per head.
Juvenile Offenders.
the
As a first, though very in- adequate, step to this end, society has, as has been mentioned in the annual report, given some financial assistance to the Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood to wards fitting up and maintaining their hospital and out-patients clinic for children at Shamshulpo. But this hospital providea only 30 cots which are sadly insufficient to meet the urgent needs of the Kowloon Peninsula.
.
During the year some progress
Not A Charity Organisation. has been made in the matter of the treatment of juvenile offen- A fear has been expressed in ders. The legislation necessary tortain quarters that the Sociely, responsi for the institution of juvenile in undertaking certain courts has been prepared and is bilities, might fall into the indis-
consideration by the Gov- tinguishable role of an ordinary! met, and steps have been charitable organisation. While it to ensure possession of the must be admitted that part of our Belilios Reformatory for use as a work is not dissimilar to that now Remand Home and refuge for den-performed by several other ins- titute boys.
titutions, our chief aims are, to
con
can
Relief Essential. When the Society was founded it was not foreseen that such low standards of living would be en- countered and it was, I think, anticipated that the work of the Inspector would be largely of an advisory nature. It rapidly he- came apparent that if useful work
The provision of further B-quote the Constitution of the Se- was to be done and if children
commodation for destituto chil-ciety. "to protect children and were to be saved from death from dron in institutions wherein they young persons by preventing, re- virtual starvation, relief must be granted. The Society has there- receive vocational training is moving or mitigating any injus an urgent necessity, for the St.tice done to them; to anfeguard fore adopted the
In those the limit of its capacity, The So-which causes or is likely to cause cases where the poverty of parents ciety has placed six boys in the them unnecessary suffering or
or In- has made it impossible for them School and there are others who jury to their health; and generally to give their children proper food will be placed there immediately to protect the interests of chil
This policy, though it entails
01 | vacancies occur,
dren" Some of these aims peculiar to our Society, and we have always kept them before us. and have endeavoured them into effect, as the annual re- port has shown. The Society has (Continued on Page 10.)
ing milk preparation of supply- Louis Industrial School is filled to their morals; to prevent any bet
much unforeseen expense, scarce- During the past year the So- ly needs justification for you can-ciety's expenditure amounted to not feed the hungry on advice, $8,078, but this cannot be regard however good it may be. I will.ed na an indication of the needs however, mention one case by way for the next year, as during the of illustration.
Arst eight months we had only one
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