that anyone could be found to undertake this job when the Family Welfare Society and the Salvation Army stepped into the breach and decided to start work for the aid of discharged prisoners in addition to all their other responsibilities.
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44. Residents of Hong Kong who were helped as far as possible by the Social Welfare Office with some form of outdoor relief belonged to three main groups: (i) families in need because the breadwinner was temporarily incapacitated; (ii) persons who could not support themselves because of physical or mental handicaps; (iii) others who, although able-bodied and of sound mind, were unable to support themselves or their families.
45. This last group was substantially helped only during the period of reconstruction in 1945 and 1946, when the British Military Administration had no option but to distribute large- scale outdoor relief through straightforward gifts of food, clothing or money. Since then, destitute able-bodied adults had for the most part to fend for themselves unless they could persuade some charitable organization to support them--though special measures were taken in connexion with the mass influx of refugees after 1948. Throughout the period under review various attempts were made to bring about some measure of coordination between the charitable relief organizations, both between themselves and with Social Welfare Office, but without very noticeable results.
46. Up until 1st April, 1948 the Relief Section had had its energies channelled into providing a free meal every day at six Free Feeding Centres to thousands of destitute or near-destitute
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