47. Forty three girls were placed by the Section in the Po Leung Kuk, a long established Chinese institution which provides residential care for children and girls in need of care and protection.
48. A Sub-Committee of the Social Welfare Advisory Committee completed in December 1958 a long and valuable report on the problem of prostitution in Hong Kong, the recommendations in which will form the basis for future work in this field. The report contains the results of investigations made in 1954, 1955 and 1958, and makes it clear that the great majority of prostitutes in Hong Kong have taken to this life because of the need to earn a living and their inability to find other employment. Nearly 50% of those interviewed were illiterate and very few had had more than three years schooling. 86% had been in Hong Kong for less than eleven years and only 12% had been born in Hong Kong.
49. 2,551 emigrants were screened by the Special Welfare Services Section in connexion with the requirements of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance (No. 30 of 1915). The purpose of this work is mainly to prevent trafficking in women and children. The departure of six juvenile emigrants was notified to the Department of Social Welfare in Singapore in order that action might be taken for their welfare on arrival. Particulars of these 2,551 emigrants are at Appendix 11.
CHAPTER VII
PROBATION
50. The Probation Section is responsible for the operation of the Colony's Probation Service and for running three institutions: the Approved School for Boys at Castle Peak, The Remand Home, and the Shanghai Street Children's Centre. Particulars of the Ordinances under which the Probation Section works are at Appendix 1.
51. In addition to daily attendance at the Magistracies of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, Probation Officers attend twice weekly the Magistrates Courts at Tai Po and Ping Shan in the New Territories, and serve also the District Courts and the Supreme Court.
52. Two Probation Committees have been established, one for Hong Kong Island and the other for Kowloon and the New Territories, and they held their first Meetings in January 1959.
53. Probation Officers have investigated and reported upon the social and economic circumstances of thirty seven selected cases of
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