In 1950 Miss S. C. Chau, a Social Welfare Office officer with great experience, went to England to take a special course in Moral Welfare work, and upon her return in 1951 set about the task of creating a Moral Welfare Section in the department. Her principal responsibility was the social recla- mation of juvenile prostitutes, or of young girls partly trained for that life.
In the autumn of 1951 arrangements were made for the Sisters of the Order of the Good Shepherd, who had been turned out of Shanghai after 17 years' experience in this kind of work, to set up an experimental home in a former military camp in Kowloon. In the early summer of 1952, with help from the Social Welfare Office, other Government departments, the Army, and the manager of the Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., this home was opened. The original buildings consisted of Nissen huts adapted as far as possible to meet the require- ments of this particular kind of Girls' Home.
36. Work closely connected with the suppression of traffic in human beings was conducted under the authority of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance 1915, and involved the inter- viewing of a thousand or more women and children emigrants every month, taking appropriate action in doubtful cases, and maintaining correspondence with interested authorities in the ports of disembarkation. From 1948 onwards, the bulk of this work was undertaken almost single-handed by Miss D. Ho of the Social Welfare Office. More than one departmental report from Singapore has made special reference to the effectiveness of Hong Kong's co-operation in this field.
Statistical summaries are given in Appendix 7.
CHAPTER IX
SOCIAL WORK AND THE LAW COURTS
37. The Juvenile Offenders Ordinance, 1932, was modelled on the United Kingdom's Children and Young Persons Bill even before the latter had been enacted in 1933. This ordinance
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