Social_Welfare_Annual_Report_1948-1954 — Page 55

KAIFONG ASSOCIATIONS.

APPENDIX 10

Summary of the principal social service activities promoted by recognised Kaifong Welfare Associations during the year 1949-1954.

Activities

Totals achieved or maintained during the

12 months preceding 31st March

1950

1951

1952 1953 1954

Associations:

(1) Numbers.

Total number of members of all

families

Recognized Associations established..

10

14

16

曲

17

18

persons

(2) Educational work.

5,646 26,230

14,601 22,587 26,235 28.163 61,324 194,209 209,697 222,919

Total school classes opened and run... Total children receiving free schooling!

64

2,880

134 4,900

176 6,606

144 75,610

122 3,751

(3) Medical social work.

Doctors (herbalist and western style

giving free treatment)

210

Total patients treated.

1,890

573 49,641

877 91,108

984

1,059

89,641 | 139,149

New St. John Ambulance divisions

or classes raised

5

14

17

19

85

Cases dealt with by these St. John

Ambulance members

101

318

386

297

1,187

(4) Other Social work.

Local sports teams organized....

10

33

38

25

142

Sports matches or meetings organized

51

156

241

491

311

Women's domestic training classes

started or run

1

30

54

Women attending these domestic

training classes

100

829

628

2

45

12

261

295

533

281

Women's sewing classes started or run Women attending these sewing classes Victims of fires or shipwreck aided in co-operation with Social Welfare Office

Miscellaneous services performed (free vaccinations, free maternity aid, free coffins, padded winter coats and other gifts-excluding aid given to fire victims)

Representations made to Government

or other bodies on matters of Local public welfare

49

14,108

5,571

31,559 27,140 | 117,575

579

1,448 3,189

35,226 26,463

32

80

134

244

533

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