APPENDIX 11
CASES UNDER THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND JUVENILES ORDINANCE AND OTHER CHILDREN IN CARE
PERIOD: 1 APRIL 1966 TO 31 MARCH 1967, COMPARED WITH PREVIOUS Years
A. I Wards of the Director of Social Welfare
(a) Females adopted under Chinese custom and on the register as wards on 1 April (section 30) New registration during the year...
1958-59
1965-66
1966-67
1,832
1,392
1,382
102
95
1,934
1,487
59 1,441
Wardships terminated during the
year
185
105
137
Total at end of year
1,749
1,382
1,304
(b) Females declared as wards and
remaining wards on 1 April
(section 31)
162
70
77
***
Wards declared during the year
36
28
36
198
98
113
Wardships by declaration ter-
minated during the year...
Total at end of year
(c) Wards by order of the Juveniles Court on 1 April (section 34) Made wards by Order of Court
during the year
***
Juvenile Court Orders cancelled
Total at end of the year
Total number of wards of
12
21
5
186
77
108
***
46
299
392
5
94
42
•
51
393
434
1
2
+
51
392
432
Director of Social Welfare at end of year
***
1,986
1,851
1.844
2 Males adopted under Chinese custom and voluntarily registered
On the registered on 1 April
1,481
946
828
New registrations during the year
64
20
8228
24
1,545
966
852
Registrations cancelled during the
year
58
138
77
Total at end of year
1,487
828
775
3 *Children in care on 1 April
4,242
2,450
2,034
New cases during the year...
1,208
1,194
1,286
5,450
3,644
3,320
Cases closed during the year
Total at end of year
2,011
1,610
878
3,439
2,034
2,442
B.
Visits
Number of home visits to children in
care during the period
6,472
7,617
5,818
C. Office Interviews
6,483
6,969
* Consisting of children found wandering or abandoned, ill-treated or uncontrollable, children of prisoners or hospital patients, children who are the object of a dispute between husband and wife or between natural and adoptive parents, etc.
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