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APPENDIX 18

VOLUNTARY SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS

DOING WORK FOR THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED AND THE AGED

POSITION ON 31ST MARCH, 1961

Name of Institution

A. For the Handicapped

B.

Vocational Training Centres for the Blind:

1. Old Tsan Yuk

2. Hung Hom

3. Wong Tai Sin

4. Lai Chi Kok

5. Tai Hang Tung

6. O'Brien Road, Wan Chai

*Hostel for the Blind

*Ebenezer School and Home for the Blind *Canossa Home for the Blind *Canossa School for Blind Girls

*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 and Branch School in Kowloon *Children's Convalescent Home. Sandy Bay

5 Schools for Hospitalised Children

*Hei Ling Chau Leprosarium

Vocational Training Centre for the Physically

Handicapped

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

(See paragraph 77)

Run by

Hong Kong Society of the Blind,

in conjunction with the Department

Hidesheim Mission to the Blind

Canossian Sisters

A School Council A School Council

(Privately run)

Hong Kong Society for Relief of

Disabled Children British Red Cross Society (Hong Kong Branch) Mission to Lepers, Hong Kong

Auxiliary

Number

Address of Institution

in Care

Maximum Capacity

Western Street, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong. Block D, Hung Hom Resettlement

24

35

Estate, Kowloon,

9

7

Block X, Wong Tai Sin Resettlement

Estate, Kowloon.

No. 8 Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon,

Block D, Tai Hang Tung Resettlement

Estate, Kowloon.

O'Brien Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Old Tsan Yuk Building, Western Street,

Hong Kong.

R.B.L. 136 Pokfulam.

Mt. Davis Road, Hong Kong,

St. Francis Yard, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Diamond Hill, Kowloon.

Victoria Park, Causeway Bay, Hong

Kong.

Sandy Bay, Hong Kong,

In various hospitals.

50

40

12

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14

14

15

22

NEANC

93

200

19

40

80

110

110

120

103

54

54

234

Hei Ling Chau, Hong Kong.

536

540

Rehabilitation in conjunction with the Department

Block X, Wong Tai Sin Resettlement

Estate, Kowloon.

30

35

Little Sisters of the Poor

Ngau Chi Wan, Kowloon.

413

413

Aberdeen, Hong Kong,

10

Chinese Christian Churches Union Lo Yan Street, Kowloon Wall City.

176

176

A Taoist Committee

191

191

A Buddist Committce

101

101

100

100

10

10

Hong Kong Society for

A Buddist Committee

The West China Evangelistic Band

Residential

Sha Tin, New Territories. Sha Tin, New Territories. Diamond Hill, Kowloon. Sha Tin, New Territories.