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SURVEY OF LONG-HAINED BEGCARS
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SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1974.
THE NEW LIFE PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION BEGINS A SURVEY OF LONG-HAIRED BEGGARS IN THE STREETS OF HONG KONG TUMURKOJ (SUNDAY).
THE SURVEY WILL BE CARRIED OUT BY A GROUP OF 120 STUDENTS FROM THE JUILOLGY DEPARTMENT OF THE HONG KONG BAPTIST CULLEGE, WHO HAVE TAKEN A COURSE 1.... RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND HAVE RECEIVED A SPECIAL ORIZFIA, PAIRED IN TEAMS OF TWO THEY WILL TOUR THE STREETS OF HONG KONG AND KOWLOJN INTERVIEWING ANY LONG-HAI KEU BEGGAR THEY SEE, USING A QUESTIONAIRE AND AN OBSERVATION RECORD FORM THAT HAS BEEN SPECIALLY COMPILED BY A GROUP OF PSYCHIATRISTS.
TEN CITY DISTRICT OFFICERS ARE CO-OPERATING IN THE PROJECT BY. PROVIDING INFORMATION ON DISTRICTS, STRICTS, ETC.
COMMENTING ON THE SURVEY, MR. LEO LEE, PRESIDENT OF NEW LIFE PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION, SAID THE ASSOCIATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE PIONEER IN THE VARIOUS TYPES OF REHABILITATION WORK FOR MENTAL PATIENTS AND IS UNDERTAKING THIS PROJECT TO FIND OUT SUME FACTS IN RESPONSE TO A SUGGESTION FROM THE SUCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT.
+THE PROBLEM OF LONG-HAIRED BEGGARS HAS LONG BEEN REALIZED DY BOTH THE GOVERNMENT AND THE VOLUNTARY AGENCIES SUCH AS JUR ASSOCIATION. BUT OPINIONS VARIED GREATLY AS TO THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM. IS IT A MEDICAL PROLLEN OR A SOCIAL PROBLEM? ARE THESE PEOPLE HERELY BEGGARS, O. OF PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIOUR VARIANT, UN ACTUALLY MENTALLY ILL OR MENTALLY RETARDED? THIS IS WHAT WE HOPE TO FIND OUT, BUT FIRST OF ALL WE WILL BE STUDYING THE MAGNITUDE OF THE PROBLEM IN THIS ONE-DAY SCREENING SURVEY OF THE URBAN AREAS OF HONG KONG AND KOILOON, + HE SAID.
THE RESULTS OBTAINED IN THE SURVEY WILL BE ANALYSED TO FIND OUT WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE, WHETHER THEY HAVE HAD ANY HELP PREVIOUSLY IF THEY CAN BE HELPED IN ANY WAY AND IF THEY ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT HELP.
THE ASSOCIATION PLANS EVENTUALLY TO TAKE INTO ITS CARE THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO BE HELPED. THIS MAY BE AT ITS FARM FOR FORMENLY MENTALLY ILL PATIENTS DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITALS. THE AIM WOULD BE TO ASSIST THEM AND PREPARE THEN FOR RE-INTEGRATION INTO SOCIETY. THE ASSOCIATION ALSO RUNS A HALF-WAY HOUSE FOR WOMEN AND ANOTHER FOR MEN AND A SHELTERED WORKSHOP.
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