attempted suicide and two of the commonest precipitating factors are personal conflicts and financial stress. Thirty-four persons with evident symptoms of mental illness were referred to the psychiatric service of the Medical and Health Department.
SOCIALLY HANDICAPPED
92. The resettlement of discharged tubercular patients, cured victims of Hansen's disease, and drug addicts after clinical cure, presents a special problem because of the difficulty of securing honest and ungrudging social acceptance for their return to the community. A register is kept, and some have been given or found accommodation in resettlement estates, while a number do sheltered work at a settle- ment in Kwun Tong. A rehabilitation centre for drug addicts with a capacity of two hundred and fifty is run by the Society for the Aid and Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts at Shek Kwu Chau, an island near Cheung Chau, where it has taken over the responsibilities of the previous drug addiction unit of the mental health service. Plans are at present under discussion which if accepted would double capacity. Lutheran World Service also runs a club for ex-drug addicts. The Secretariat for Chinese Affairs is charged with the co-ordination of official work on this intractable social problem, and the government's Narcotics Advisory Committee has set up five sub-committees on Treatment and Reha- bilitation, Education Publicity. Illicit Traffic, Deterrents, and Research. The Publicity Sub-Committee organized a Colony-wide campaign against narcotic drugs in the latter part of 1966. The Lotteries Fund gave a grant of $55,000 for a film on drug addiction which is being made by the Information Services Department.
93. The welfare of industrial workers is primarily the concern of the Labour Department; but the Special Welfare Services Section investi- gates the family circumstances of all workers who have been killed or severely disabled in industrial accidents, and advises on the best form and frequency of payments under the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance, in the interests of the beneficiaries. In one hundred and sixty-five cases of fatal accident, the family conditions were investigated and over one hundred and thirty cases were reviewed.
94. In accordance with the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, Cap 74, officers of this section interviewed, among their miscellaneous duties, six hundred and thirty-nine women and children who were leaving Hong
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