Que Relieving Officer, four Assistant Relieving Officers, three Social Workers, one teacher and five Trade Instructors. An analysis of the inmates by categories and details of vocational training are given at Appendix 20.
59. During the year, thirty three distressed British subjects were repatriated, with free passages, through the agency of the Special Welfare Services Section. Their destinations are listed in Appendix 12. The World Council of Churches and the Catholic Relief Services are both concerned with the resettlement of displaced persons coming out of China, and with obtaining entry visas, etc. During the year 3,782 persons were resettled, most of them in Australia and Brazil. The majority of these were Europeans and passages were mostly paid for by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Inter- governmental Committee for European Migration. Some Chinese refugees in Hong Kong were assisted to resettle abroad by Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals Inc., their destinations being chiefly Taiwan and the United States of America.
60. Voluntary relief organizations operate extensively in the field of medical and educational services and housing. For instance, the medical relief scheme of the Lutheran World Service, which included advice, encouragement and material aid, treated a total of 1,863 patients; the Society of St. Vincent de Paul through its casework committees paid cash grants for hospitalization, during illness or other emergencies; a number of voluntary bodies run clinics and dispensaries. The Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, the oldest established Chinese charity, provided free schooling for 5,485 pupils in their six primary schools, whilst the Kaifong Welfare Associations catered for 7,720 free pupils in 206 classes. The Catholic Relief Services and the Church World Service supplemented the work of the government Resettlement Depart- ment by building cottages for fire victims.
61. The Hong Kong Council of Social Service has been taking much interest in the problem of indebtedness, some idea of the extent of which was given by a social survey of Resettlement Estates carried out by the University of Hong Kong, in co-operation with the staff of the Department. At present three organizations, the Hong Kong Family Welfare Society, the Lutheran World Service and the Salvation Army are doing what they can, with limited funds, to alleviate with grants
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