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APPENDIX 20
VOLUNTARY SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS
DOING WORK FOR THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED AND THE AGED
POSITION ON 31ST MARCH, 1960
(See paragraph 61)
Run by
Institution
(1) For the Handicapped
Vocational Training Centre for the Blind,
Old Tsan Yuk Hospital
Vocational Training Centre for the Blind, Hung Hom Vocational Training Centre for the Blind, Wan Chai Ebenezer School and Home for the Blind, Pokfulam Canossa Home for the Blind, Mt. Davis
Hong Kong School for the Deaf, Diamond Hill Victoria Park School for the Deaf, Causeway Bay Chinese Overseas School for the Deaf and Dumb,
North Point
Pilot Rehabilitation Centre †
Children's Convalescent Home. Sandy Bay
5 Schools for Hospitalized Children
Hay Ling Chau Leprosarium
(2) For the Aged
Home for the Aged, Ngau Chi Wan Home for the Aged, Aberdeen Kwong Yam Home, Kowloon City Sin Tin Tao Home, Sha Tin Po Yeh Home, Sha Tin
Chi Lin Home, Kowloon City Home for the Aged, Sha Tin
Hong Kong Society of the Blind, in conjunction with
the Social Welfare Department
Hildesheim Mission to the Blind
Canossian Sisters
A School Council
A School Council
(Privately run)
Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation
Hong Kong Society for Relief of Disabled Children British Red Cross Society (Hong Kong Branch) Mission to Lepers, Hong Kong Auxiliary
Little Sisters of the Poor
Chinese Christian Churches Union
A Taoist Committee
A Buddist Committee
A Buddist Committee
The West China Evangelistic Band
* Completed early 1960; to open initially with 20 pupîls in September 1960.
+ Planned for a capacity of 80.
Buildings for 400 under construction.
Capacity
49 trainees
43 trainees
14 trainees
120 pupils (117 boarders)
43 boarders
105 boarders 120 day pupils 103 day pupils
P
53 children
146 children in all
540 inmates
410 men and women
12 men ‡
176 women
185 men and women
101 women
100 women
10 women
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