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HONG KONG ĐAILY PRESS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1932.

Hong Kong Society for the

Protection of Children

ONLY CASES HELPED WHERE INCOME IS BELOW $4 PER HEAD PER MONTH

INSPECTORS WINNING CONFIDENCE OF POORER CLASSES

The Report of the Society for the Protection of repents the information, gradually becoming known to all seo- tions, of the state of object poverty in which a large section of the local working classes exist.

The Society dealt with 881 cases during the year ended: October 31, 1932. The average income of the families concerned was £2,00 per head, and the Socisty drew as its poverty line, above which assistance could not be given an income of $1 per head month.

A very satisfactory feature of the work has been the progress made by the Society's Inspectors in winning the confidence of the classes they help, and making them realise what the Society is able and willing to do,

The Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held at the Cathedral Hall on Wednesday, December 9% at 3.30 p.m

We give the following extracts from the Report:

COOLIE CLASS CONDITIONS DESCRIBED

During the year under review there were reported to the Society eight hundred and eighty-one cases affecting the welfare of one thou- sand, aix hundred and forty-eight children and only in an infini tesimal number of these cases was it found that the help of the Society was not genuinely required:

It was recognised, that the em ployment of two additional Inspec tors in the summer of 1831 and the division of the Colony into three Districts would be followed by

·in. increase

the number

an

of cases, but even those most conversant with the situation can hardly, have. anticipated that in single year and that virtually only the second year of the Society's effective life-the work would be almost trebled,

The first alternative. involves or

dinarily, payment of ten, onts

a day (which is prodably one-third of the woman's earnings) and an most of the mothers are of the coolin class the second alternative-in- volves the child being exposed in health or sickness alike to the Bam mer's heat and rains and the Win- ter cold.

It is a striking fact that in -Kowloon where the poverty is most acute the proportion of deaths among children of under one year is the highest

In considering the shove figures it has to be borne in mind that the cases which are brought to the Society's notion are mainly, those of the children of the very poorest - of the poor and that in a VOTY high percentage of the casos the Society is consulted because the child is already ill,

Society's, Success.

One cannot formulate an infantile mortality rate on the above figures, but taking the Agures for the past two years it is safe to say that in the Society's cases the rate has beeg less than one-third of the rate shown in the report of the. Dire tor of Medical and Sanitary Ber

We, stress this point because it seems to indicate most elearly that ffany, movement in the direction of ensuring that every child secures all necessary medical attention and peculiar to this Colony, and in food is the surest means of #due- particular by the housing probleming the Colony truly appalling

Infantile mortality rate.

Housing Condition

In his report for the year 1933 the Director of Medical and Sani- tary Services points out that the portion of Victoria in which the working classes reside has anates of roughly, two hundred acres, and that in this space nearly 200,000 individuals find accommo dation, giving a density of ap proximately 1,000 persons per acre,

The establishment of additional Infant Welfare Clinics with creches where working mothers could leave

in-1 their children would be an estimable boon to the poor and would be the means of saving many

yea

Your Committes desires to em

phasise that the Society, does not No relief is granted unless investi indiscriminately give assistance He says In some houses, there gation of the income of the family are tiers of bunks against the walls, and all the circumstances of the in others the rooms are divided case show this to be essential for into cubicles or cabins, each met the preservation of life or health. suring perhaps eight feet by eight It is not and never will be the feet and having partitions six feet policy of the Society to relieve par- in height. These cabins are not ente of their responsibilities; on the temporary abode of persons on Of the three Districts' Western voyago but the more or less per the contrary, it is the policy of the Hong Kong, with its old and crowd-manent homes of the people. There Society to ensure that parental

is little or no room for kitchens, duties are properly performed. ed tenements, produced the highest and latrine accommodation is often number of cases 383, while Eastern limited to pail-closets on the roofs. In the vast majority of cases the Hong Kong and Kowloon produced

of the buildings...

need for help is self-evident, and 224 and 274 respectively.

Aid Being Asked,...,

In each District the Society has had the same experience. At first the cases have been found by the Inspectors via the course of visits! to the poorer streets and to hos pitals and clinics, and the parents have shown a tendency to ignore avail advies and to neglect to themselves of arrangements for medical treatment for ailing child reus; but gradually they fave come to regard the Inspectors sa friends and advisers. Thus during the past year the help of the Bociety has been invoked by members of the Public in 704 cases, and in by far the greater number of these it was the parents themselves who Bought advice or aid:

The establishment of this con- fidence and friendly relationship is of immense importance and has resulted in the Inspectors being able to secure medical treatment for 817.children who through the ignor ance of the parents might otherwise have lacked proper" : attenfiong

Acute Poverty

The need for an organization willing and able to help the child ren of the very poor has again; been all too clearly demonstrated by the amount of acute poverty which has been encountered..

On the whole of the 881 cases dealt with by the Society during the year the average monthly in [comsi per head was (Led

Western Hong Kong District 'show ed en average of $3.19, the Eastern District"one" of: $3.25 and Kowloon, one of $2.28.

The difficulty, if at these sibility of providing feda, zülat!?{ ing and lodging out of such meagre incomes itself evident.

The great demand for accom- help could not in common human modation in the congested districts ity be refused. makes for high rents and it is found that in Western Victoria the cost of a bed space, taken on the Average of 250 cases, works out at 88.05 per month. The average comf of a cubicle would be approximate- ly double this figure. In: Kowloon the renta are slightly lower, but it will be noted that the incomes also are lower.

Raving, regard to their low in- comes it is not surprising to find that, in 510 cases the families, con corned were not able to afford such. a luxury as a cubicle, and had to content themselves with bedspssen:

In scores of cases the Inspectors reports bore the words Living in semi-darkness. No ventilation,

With auch living conditions one could not hope to find: immunity from disease, and with the added factor of somistarvation it is not surprising to find that disease was an element in 587 of the 881 cases reported.

- Infant, Mortality.

Your Committee deplores the high rate of infantile mortality disclosed by the Annual Report of the Director of Medical and Bani- tary Services for the Year 1931.

The number of Chinese births registered as having occurred dur ing the year was 12,055 and the number of deaths of infants under one year was 1,44

Owing to the failure birthe the infantile mortality rate of 617.43 per thousand-dfičlosed the above figures must be reg zarezaggerated, but it is undoubted buitisk calderably exceeds 500 ayyerrybigle indeed and in all proj per thousa

When one considers that the ir For general purposes, including, non-chelsene face in the Colony fantile mortality rate for childros the decision of any question so to Whether, sistance, should be given, is only 1, ner thousand it seeme the Soulety takes as a poverty lite obrious that the high rate among an income of.. 84 per head per climatic use but must be due to the Chinges cannot be attributed to the unhealthily congested conditions under which the Chinese poor live, and to th lack of proper food, and attention,

During the past year tim Hadiaty has dealt with 118 cases in which there was no income whatsoever and 11868 esses in which the income WAN DA For below the above mentoredi

poverty

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close prox

Burden on the Mothers,

There is no abf that in a great number of caller an immediate re

ays enough food

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