THE · HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1936,
OF WORK
SOCIETY FOR PROTECTION
CHILDREN REVIEWS ITS
ANNUAL
REPORT
IS A LESSON
TO H. K.
PEOPLE
other and more satisfactory employ- ment is" avalinble.
During the year 1935-1036, haw kers' licences were supplied In 37 cures and renewed in 7."
to
LAST year the total receipts of the Society for the Protec-being taken with such grave anxiety.
tlon of Children-Hongkong's most active charitable | organisation-were $22,722.69.
foods was useless, and that co-opera- tion between these places and the Society's Branches was essential as only the Society had funds avaliable fur relief, and the personnel and machinery for ascertaining whether relief whs necesary.
the
During the ye to the two Govern
of
E RADIO BROADCAST
Relay from "The Maid Of The Mountains"
"FOREIGN AFFAIRS"
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on Wavelength of 355 metres (843 k.c.'s), 31.40 metres (0.52 megacycles),
12.30 p.m. Military Band Music. 1 p.m. Time and Weather, 1.03 p.m. Derek Oldham (Tenor). 1.15 p.m. Concert Waltzes. 1.25 p.m.
Reuter Press, Rugby Press, Time, Weather and Announce- ments.
It is largely because the new policy of the
Urban Council with regard to hawkers' lleences threatens The following figures taken from
deprive people of this type of the Report of
Director of their only hope of earning an honest Medical and Sunitary Services for Ilving in intervals of unemployment, the year 1935, indicate the extent of that the Society views the measures Infant Welfare Work in the Colony.
Other forms of indirect cases
of vocational ment Centres. All these cases were elude the provision training for the older children, feed- Chinese, though not necessarily The revenue exceeded the expenditure by only $26.60.ing the mother so that she may be the poorest classes.
her child, etc., etc. Five
In the period 1st November, 1935, With the $22,710 spent during the year, the Society: boys are being maintained by the to 31st October, 1930, there were Society in the Industrial School at 9,005 patients at the Shamshulpo Aberdeen, twelve at the St. Louis 110spitni and Clinic, 1,500 of these out- in-patients, and 7,525 Industrial School, one at St. Joseph's College and one at the Street
Boys'
tra. As has been sold above, during the Club. Two girls are being main- tained at the Convent of the Chinese year which ended on October 31st, Sisters of the Precious Blood, two 1938, there were 30,355 attendances at the Victoria Home and Orphon- at the Society's Branches, and the made 5,306 visis to age, one at the Canossian Institute. Inspectors The expense of one other mainter- honies. ance case is being shared by this Society and the H.K. Benevolent Society. The Society is assisting in one morn case which has been com- on 17 of the Juvenile Offenders mitted by the Magistrate under Sec-
Dealt with 1,572 new cases, affecting 3,687 children; Assisted 30,355 mothers and infants who attended regularly at the branches for advice, weighing, soup, fruit juice, cod liver oil and various other forms of relief;
Made, through its Inspectors, 5,306 visits to children's homes;
Supplied 44 hawkers' licences to persons who otherwise, through inability to procure employment, may have starved to
death;
Maintained 23 children at various schools or institutions; Paid the rent in 23 cases, and gave financial aid in 101 cases; Supplied 18,398 tins of milk, 144 tins of Lactogen, 157% gallons of cod liver oil, and soup to the value of $165.89.
The Society ended the year with a financial surplus of $12.26. Every other penny that it earned went towards relieving poverty and starvation in the slums of Hongkong.
tion
Ordinance.
The care of infants while the mother there is the greatest need. Mothers are obliged to spend one-third In order to live their infants cored for in their absence,
Thanks to the generosity of Mr.
works is a form of relief for which
patients.
BLIND AND CRIPPLED CHILDREN
These children have always been
cause of
great concern to the Society, which realises the magni- lude of the problem they present and the Impossibility of dealing adequately with under present
conditions.
and
crippled Ik
The late Mr. M. A. Cooper, while Because of lack of funds the Society could but touch the fringe one-half of their daily earnings acting as Honorary Director of the of the gigantic tank it set itself when it was formed seven years ago.
Society, explored the possibilities of organised curative treatment, 1: THE Annual Meeting of the Society, which will be attended by
was his ambition to found and builch
Eye-Hospital. His Excellency the Governor and Lady Caldecott, will be Li Po-chun the first
The necessary step towards an
hnd need
assistance held at the Helena May Institute on Thursday at 5.30 p.m. Olling this
will shortly
been be perialist
Mr. F. C. promised, and the late The Annual Report, which is already in the hands of subscribers, Society the use for two years of awek of the Committee. Mr. Cooper's
taken. Mr. Li has given to the Jenkin had agreed to act an Chatr l, in part, as follows:
house in Clarence Terrace, and is During the year ending October three Branches during 1935-1930 going to rebuild it
has postponed the it untimely death has prepore it 31. 1930, the Socirty dealt with 1,572 have reached the huge total of 30,- for use as a creche. The Canadian realisation of this project.
for blind new cases, affecting 3,687 children as 355.
But Sisters will be in charge, and will compared with 1,173
children Cages The Inspectors make regular visits take in those children who are sent
a permanent home affecting 2,170 children last year.
to the children's homes,
needed, as well as a hospital. the total to them by the Society's Inspector. The total number of cases dealt number of such visits during the in addition Mr. L will give one hun-
which will receive blind
Elris. Colony is no place in the running expenses. The Society has there undertaken to furnish and equip the where blind boys may find a home. At the urgent request of the house, and to pay the expenses over
St. John Ambulance and above those covered by Mr. Li's Society, the
charge of Brigade has kindly taken gift.
two blind boys, one of whom had suffered incredibly at the hands of 11 depraved brother, and was being But
new
with by the Society diner its founda- year being 5,308 ar compared with dred dollars a month towards the h there are several institu-
Hon Is 5,804 Involving 11,751 child-5,339 last year.
ren.
Du
required i
Of the 1,572 rases dealt with this year,
1,000 same medical attention.
In addition to new cases there are cases which a supply of milk or ather food is continued till the need
This
burden of supervision cases.
ferding is ca and
is carried on month to month and from year to
not to
to take this year until
is able to sup the family
from those to whom i port itself. Cases silt under super- !
the vision
beginning Society's new year in November since the beginning of the year has
place 721. This year, taken the 1935 1,033 cases are curried forward being dealing with licences, has helped us still under supervision on 31st Octo- as far as possible. ber. 1930.
HAWKERS' LICENCES
The work of obtaining hawkers' and of generally assisting licencea the parents to earn their lying has been continued, for it is the Society's from desire to enable parents to beng the
responsibility for their
numbered
of the Police
*
Such work is of couse experimen-
exploited by him as a beggar. accommodation at the Haw Par
tal, and besides helping to fill a long- felt need, will show the way for dfuture developments and extensions,
Find give the
Invaluable Society
of Hospital, where these two children of the knowledge
and of how to morcover, the Ambulance Brigade will be free to mothers in-
of the
can
of the brings. The Urban Council, which the poor mother requirements or have found shelter, is limited, and
conduct relief of this type. The doc
he does not consider that this hospital in creche
troduced by the Society's Inspectors, ie penny te regarded as a sulla and the Sisters will not at first, ex-ren.
its intention of initiating other babies on their own responsi- Such medical attention is policy which has for its ultimate bity.
the abolition of food-hawkers, Already no new licences are being issued for the hawking of food and cigarettes.
Of the new cases in the last year. Imly the Urban Council has copt in cases of emergency, take in
224 were reported to the Society by Officers of Clinics, Hospitals and Covemment Welfare Centres, and by Magistrates and Police: 1,309 directly by purents, relatives or members of the public; while 39 were found by Inspectors.
♦
AVERAGE INCOME
The average income per
per month of the case
br dealt w.di
has been steadily decreasing since the Society's 'Inception.
In 1932 It was $2.93, this year I
has fallen as low as $1.73.
This gives some. Idea
of the
The Society is very apprehensive of the results of such a policy, which will deprive It of the means of enabling widows to support
closely
themselves and their children.
may be needed by the infants will be provided, and they will be fed.
The responsibility for the crecne is the Society's and it will work in close co-operation with the Sisters and the donor, both of whom are represented on the Executive Com- mittee. The creche will be named after Mr. Li's mother "The Yuct Sin Creche."
permanent home for blind child-
Thiere no home in Hongkong for crippled children. The question of blind and crippled child beggars has been the subject of conference between the Inspector- General of Police and the Society. From Information obtained from in- dependent sources, it would appear that many of the blind and crippled children found on the streets are almost certainly being exploited for their earnings as beggars.
The Police have powers of arrest, The matter Is being
In all its relief work, both direct and the Juvenile examined by a Sub-Committee with
Offenders' Ordin-
fo arrangu that such view to making proposals which direct, the Society has con- aner gives the Magistrates ample may lead to a relaxation of lie banned to co-operate with the-vari- authority.
the issue of licences when the ous Government Departments con- children shall be placed in suitable cerned with children, as well as with care. But until there is sufficient on
by Cern recommended applicants are
and accommodation hospitals and con- important very
the incurable, the majority of these part of its work. The most
striking- livelihood.
It must be realised that at presently successful example of such co- children must place their only hope is witif the doctors who of survival in begging, either inde- families without work can only operation
of the Government pendently or for those who exploit are in charge hawking. support themselves by
Permanent hornes for them Welfare Centres. The them. with or without a licence, or by
are most urgent need of the Often,mothers whose incume is 35 begging. Begging for food is normal Society sends to the Centres numer-
as $100 a month or even more for them. Anyone can have
in need of medical Colony.
MUI TSAI relief vice without applying for any other of family houses. But money for to the poorer cases, originating assistance.
the Colony which, rent and clothing, can, in the ab the Centres, thus supplementing the problems in
work of the Centres. Purely though they do not fall directly DIRECT RELIEF
sence of any system of public relief, medical relief would be useless if within the scope of the Society's only be obtained by hawking or bes- the children receiving it died of activities, yet are of great Indirect The depression has made itself ging. or by
malnutrition, as would often happen importance for the welfare of chil- felt oven among the poorest of the
Certainly the officers of the
dren, if it were not for the Society. poor. Among the Society's caNER
The value of welfare work gen- Recently a Commission came from last year 221 had no income at all; Society and the poor parents them- this year the number without in- selves would prefer that the familica erally is very largely dependent on England to enquire into, and report
*poverty
which prevails among the
classes for whom the Society works, onsible charities and have no other charitable organisations, valescent homes, and in homes for
it
especially when is realised that the figure Includes the average - come of every family whether the Society gives relief or not which comes to the Branches.
much
Ather
1
this, represents possible means of making
Infant
his ou cases
come to ask our Inspectors for ad- rice-bowl alled by visiting the shops attention, and in its turn gives nt There are several major social
Blood at Shamshulpo, who say that beri-berl among children and mothers appears to be growing more frequent.
crime.
should maintain themselves by a come has increased to 312.
strict observance of the law, avold the distance between the home and on the Mai Tsal question. As the -in-
berging, and have a licence to hawk, the Infant Welfare Centre and the Report is not yet available, the mat The Inspectors report lower-
Society's Branches, The question ter must be regarded as sub judice comes and an increase of malnutri- but for many of them there is no of having two Branches in Kowloon and any criticisms or commentary tion. The latter report is confirmed || alternative; they must break the
to cover more effectively the very
be, at present, out of place. would by the doctors at the Hospital of the letter of the law, or starve.
large breas there inhabited by the
The Society may, however, venture of the Precious Chinese Sisters
If by the refusal of the authori- very poor is under serious considera- to express a hope that the Commis- ties to issue hawkers' licences, the tion. Seventy-three per cent, of the sion's work will result in some solu- Society is rendered unable to make cases dealt with in Kowloon Govern- tion being found which will remove families self-supporting, there willment Infant Welfare Centre come at the same time safeguard the in- all reproach from the Colony, and be only two alternatives; to allow from homes in the neighbourhood of the children lo die of starvation-the Centre. The percentage In Wan-terests of the girls, rightly or wrongly which is unthinkable; or to main-chal is 79. lain the children at the expense of the charitable, which will mean a very serious sirain on the Society's funds, and tend to pauperise the family.
INDIRECT RELIEF This help takes many forma, for
MALNUTRITION
In Kowloon It has been found that by supplying soup to the nursing mothers, artifical feeding of the In fants can often be avoided or re- duced with good results. This method of relief is now being | extended to the Western Branch. To ensure that infants old enough
common.
The results of the last year's for
impossible
1.40 p.m. A Relay of the Rotary Club Tin Speech from the Roof. Garden of the Hongkong Hotel,
2.10 p.m. Close Down. 4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7 p.m. Roy Fox and His Orches. 7.30 p.m. Closing Local Stock Quo tations and Hongkong Exchange Market Report.
7.35 p.m. Variety.
Francis Vocal No regrets Faye; Saxophone Solo-I have lost my heart in Budapest.... Raymond Baird; Organ Solos "Transatlantic Rhythm" Medley
Reginald Foort; Vocal-Medley of songs from Shirley Temple Pictures Questal; Vocal-Swing is the thing: Long about midnight... The Mills Brothers.
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8 p.m. Time, Weather and An- nouncements,
8.03 p.m. Concerto in G (Avahalomoff), (Upon Chinese Themes and Rhythms).
8.35 p.m. Light Orchestral Con- cert.
Orchestra--Song of Nightingale Serenade (Heykens); Soprano Sole (Iludson and Allbout): The second Bolero-Les Filles de Cadiz (Delibes) Amelita Galli-Curci; Orchestra dream memory (Levent); My
me back
rry heart (Ivor Give Novello); Tenor Solo Songs that live forever (Lockton),
Frank Titterton: Orchestra-Indiana Sweet- heart
(Hansen): Soprano Solo- Serenata (Tosti)....Amellia Galli- Curcl.
0 p.m. London-News and An- nouncements.
9.20 p.m. The New Mayfair Orchestra.
Britelodim (Humphries): Jerome Kern Melodies; Cavalcade of Martial Songs (arr. Nicholls).
9.10 p.m. From the Studio. Colleen Parker (Vocal) with Doreen Ma (Piano).
10 p.m. London-Big Ben. Talk: "Foreign Affairs" by Sir Frederick Whyte, K.c.s.., ...
10.10 p.m. Relay-A portion of the 2nd Act of "The Maid of the Moun tuins" (Fraser-Simeon) played by the Hongkong Philharmonic Society, from the Queen's Theatre,
11 p.m. Close Down.
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6,500. 9.510 h.
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18,201
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51,500 k.. 4,110 k..
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4.59 pɔm. “Empire Exchange?
5.5 p.m. Deethoven's Renkias for Violin
and Pianofort
1.40 p.m. The News and Announcements.
Greenwich Time Bigue) at GAS p.m.
Transmission 2
(G.S.G., G.S.E.)
p.m. Hig Ben. *Empire Magulos,
18.
D.D.C.
Orebatis.
Northern
iceland
8.30 p.m. A Peseramme of New Grams-
phone Records.
p.m. The News and Announcements. Greenwick Time Hignal ai 9.15 p.m. *9.20 p.m. The Salvation Army Sparkhit
Clasel Band
Transmission 3
(G.B.D., G.S.F., 0.8.17.)
10 p.m. ■ Ban. Vareign Affaiız." 15.15 pom. The B.D.C. Empire Orchestra. 11:15 pan. The B.Bl.C, Dance Orchestra, 11.30 p.m. 'Cae for Adventure," "ky Niei
Tukan
12.10 .. The Forum Theatre Orchestra. 12.3. The News and Announcementa. Greenwich Time Bleast at 12.45 4.7. 12.58, K.m. Viela Holm by Lionel Terila.
known as Mul Tani, who are at pre- sent in Hongkong, and of those of The Society also co-operates regu- that status who may in the future larly with the Secretary for Chinese be brought here. It might be advis-astrous to adults, and entails suffer- Affairs, the Inspector-General of able to reiterate that complaints of ing and poverty for their children. Folice and the Magistrates. In-treatment of Mul Tani are very many cases its work is complemen- rarely made to the Society. tory.
"INFANT WELFARE WORK
HOUSING
SOCIETY'S ACTIVITIES
A brief reference to the principul activities of the Society since its be- ginning in 1020 seems appropriate. Prior to the inception of the So-
her
to do without milk foods do not lose instance arranging with doctors and When the Society was founded in The overcrowding problem is ground through insufficient nutri-hospitals for proper medical carc 1029, there was no organised intant ever-present. In the Report of the tion, soup is also given, to them for parents, or finding them work. welfare work in the Colony, and the Director of Medical and Sanitary ciety no one had considered the needs where necessary.
Older children and adults seem to for them a hawker's licence, supply-lay
Frequently this has nicant getting Society quickly realised that herein Services for the year 1035 it is stated of the children of the Colony as a be able to live on a rice diet withouting stock, and giving general work.
n most important part of its that in the Western and West- whole. There were no data upon Central districts of Victoria, there are which to work, or from which a showing obvious signs of malnutri-sistance until the venture proves At tion, but deficiency disenacs are very successful.
first the Society's Inspectors two hundred acres where the den-policy could be formulated."
The first real step taken was the The actual insufficiency
Selo Wai It has always been the Society's found considerable reluctance on the sity of population is at least one thou-
appointment of Miss part of mothers to have dealings sand to the acre. of such a diet is, however, imunedi
to avoid pauperisation. In with anything that anvoured of In England a district where the Cheung as the first Inspector. Mias ately apparent in the nursing and policy
density is five hundred to the acre Seto was educated at St. Paul's Girls expectant mother, as well as in these cases of temporary sickness of Western methods, and much anta-
the parent
is reckoned a "Black Blum."
School and at the Diveesan Girls" wage earner the Society
The gonism to Western medicine. youngest Infants.
provides medical attention, and cares attack on this problem was opened
Pending the Andings of the Com-i School in Hongkong, and later at the the children. In other cases, by need for a very much wider aileliness of the parents may make it Seto Wal Cheung, to, pectoriiones ment to look into housing conditters, cinling University, where, she, took It was soon discovered that if the them to earn and tact in the initial stages of the not much can be usefully said, except deeper enquiry into the causes of living, and then it may be that work the Colony owes a great debt to emphasize thot no casual relief Society's work was to be effective, its
nothing short of providing
can save from disease children who Inspectors must gain entry into the for the Doctor McGowan, whose recent
such conditions.worst sluris and break down the re- are brought up robs the Society
Of all the 1,572 canca dealt with | serve shown towards strangers. friend and helper,
by the Socicly in the last year, as poverty. Even if there rare.
(Continued on Page 12.) The Society is most fre-working with our Inspectors at the
004 familles were found to be able family means are adequate it does quently called upon to assist cases Hospital and Clinic of
the Chinese not always follow that the filet is in which the parents are able and Sisters of the Frecious Blood in quite satisfactory, but it
find em- Shumshulpo work but cannot Important that the "poverty line"
The Society views with growing quer the antipathy to Western income should be spent in the bes
cinc Kowloon:
apprehension the undoubted rapid in- possible manner.
Employment is, however, ex-at the Infant Welfare Centre increase which has recently taken placé Mothers and infants attend regu-ceedingly difficult to find and the Johnson Rond succeeded in doing in the heroin traffic in the Colony. larly at the Society's Branches for Society is generally, as has been the same in Hongkong. The work and welcomes the Government's advice, weighing soup, fruit juice, sald, driven to providing a hawker's at the Clinic and the Centro showed decision to send cases of such traffic cod liver oil and various other forms llenece and stock-in-trade, so that a that among the youngest infants for trial at the Sessions in an attempt of relief. The attendances at the living may be thus obtained; umili medical, skill/without sultable milk to stamp out a trade which is did-
malnutrition.
It may well be that ignorance of entire
proper diet is almost as great the hamlly is sufficient to protect
factor
to wo
Happily such cemented
in the best aim to make the family c a.yot more went.
It is then the
of
was the first to con-
Dr.
Mrganz
to afford a bedspace only for their home.
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