Social_Welfare_Annual_Report_1969-1970 — Page 64

APPENDIX 8

FAMILY SERVICES DIVISION

CLASSIFICATION OF PROBLEMS BEING ACTIVELY DEALT WITH AS AT THE END OF MARCH 1970

Nature of Problem

No of problems dealt with

North Kowloon

Total Intake

Kowloon

Eastern

Western

Total

between

District

District

District

District

1.4.69-

Office and

Office and

Office and

Office

31.3.70

Sub-offices

Sub-office

Sub-office

Problems involving children and

young persons

Abandoned children

27

1

Wards of Director of Social

Welfare:

Registered adopted girls

355

Declared wards

Wards by juvenile court orders

Customary adoption of boys

Illegitimate children

Juvenile mendicants

Ill-treatment of children

Behaviour problem of children

122

Behaviour problem of girls and

young women

386

Missing girls

Victims of indecent assault

Proposed marriages of under-

aged boys and girls

Unmarried parents

Children and women emigrants

397CZCAN 6AN NO

148

40

3

31

63

11

17

19

105

23

2

No ŵmalo-

19

6

73

213

88

* 22032 ga

7

89

9

125

863

31

8

61

Ι

17

111

4

64

6

152

20

I

41

25

28

11

33

15

67

363

235

62

766

375

21

1

133

80

2

18

30

20

1

1

4

4

11

41

10

98

$3

9

9

3

Other children in need of care

or protection

237

158

439

83

917

607

Others

54

13

46

12

125

324

Problems involving physical or

mental health

Blind

262

119

123

128

632

334

Deaf

158

73

112

55

398

194

Physical disabled

404

181

197

95

877

472

Mentally retarded

401

131

315

125

972

498

Mentally ill

134

43

151

47

375

232

Ex-leper

54

30

12

11

107

27

T.B. sufferers

316

162

120

81

679

301

Ill health...

658

384

386

363

1,791

967

Old age

1,218

443

544

581

2,786

1,238

Attempted suicide

25

3

51

13

92

78

Drug addicts

56

81

41

26

204

42

Others

46

23

11

80

127

Problems involving family

relationships

Difficulties in family

relationships

453

95

265

156

969

463

Child dispute

17

6

11

6

40

31

Others

21

*

8

10

43

30

Problems mainly financial

Financial difficulties

3,100

1,186

1,252

1.065

6,603

4,684

Unemployment

366

138

204

94

802

369

Widows with dependants

564

247

154

103

1,068

357

Legal aid sought

187

106

34

22

349

1,526

Workmen's compensation

56

36

15

110

117

Repatriation

4

18

Housing

362

236

175

Hawker Licences

109

120

50

Canadian pensioners

9

16

4

Others

175

15

132

Nasul

22

8

75

848

1,742

326

368

6

35

53

27

349

739

Total

10,580

4,511

5,724

3,565 24,380

16,814

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