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away from the flat for a medical examination and then to the

Chuk Yuen Centre.

Following her admission to the Centre,

Ah-nui was examined by a visiting Medical Officer, a child psychiatrist, a child psychologist and a paediatrician.

She

was found to be in good general health, but her intellectual

and social development had been held back by the reclusive

It was recommended that conditions in which she had lived.

she should continue in a setting where residential,

educational and close supervisory facilities were available. Accordingly, on 14 May the Director of Social Welfare applied to the Tsuen Wan Juvenile Court for a Care and Protection

Order under section 34(1) of the Protection of Women and

Juveniles Ordinance. The hearing was adjourned to 28 May pending a social enquiry report and medical assessments of the mother and child, and on that date the magistrate ordered that the child should be committed to the Chuk Yuen Centre until 31

July, when the Court would reconvene to consider what further

arrangements should be made for her care.

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The departmental staff were concerned also about Madam Wong's welfare if she were left alone in the flat, and they persuaded her to be escorted to hospital for examination. The doctor on duty in the Accident and Emergency Department of the Princess Margaret Hospital considered that she required admission to a mental hospital for observation. In accordance with section 31 of the Mental Health Ordinance,