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these provisions is primarily the task of the Police Force. In the care and rehabilitation of the victims, the Department receives invaluable help from three organizations, Pelletier Hall, the Po Leung Kuk and the Agnes Maternity Home.

41. Pelletier Hall is a Home run by the Good Shepherd Sisters where residential care and domestic and vocational training are provided for girls mostly between 14 and 18 years old who are admitted on the recommendation of the Department (see Appendix 9); the success of the Home may be gauged by the fact that during the year 90% of all those trained and educated were able to resume a normal life after leaving the Home.

42. The Po Leung Kuk during this period provided refuge for 14 unmarried mothers and their children (see Appendix 9) while 4 other cases requiring special care and consideration were looked after in the Agnes Maternity Home.

43. The Police are concerned with the enforcement of other Ordin- ances affecting this Section of the Department e.g. the Miscellaneous Licences Ordinance covering the licencing of dance-halls, etc; during the year, there were 100 successful prosecutions under the Protection of Women and Juveniles Ordinance (an increase of 10 over the previous year) and 3 under the Miscellaneous Licences Ordinance. (see Appendix 10 for further details).

44. 578 new cases were taken on by the Section during the year making a total case-load of nearly 2,300 at the end of the year (see Appendix 11). At Wong Tai Sin Resettlement Estate a Vocational Training Centre provided over 50 women and girls with training in knitting, tailoring and embroidery. From this training class and from Pelletier Hall, 133 girls were found work in factories or households and also as typists or shop assistants.

45. 89 women who had been in the care of this Section got married during the year-66 in registries, 13 in churches and 10 in accordance with Chinese custom.

46. The Special Welfare Services Section of the Department screened 3,163 women and children prior to their leaving Hong Kong for employment, in accordance with the requirements of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance No. 30 of 1915, as a safeguard against trafficking in women and children (see Appendix 12 for particulars).

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