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SOCIETY'S FINE

WORK

FOR COLONY'S POOR CHILDREN

|APPEAL FOR HELP

The magificent work being dong by the Hongkong Society for, the Protection of Children was ex- plained in detail in the course of ព. talk at yesterday's Rotary Club tifin by Mr, M.A. Cooper, one of the Hon. Directors of the Society. Striking Agures were given regar- ding the poverty which exists amongst those being helped by the Society, and in an appeal for help Mr. Cooper spoke of the low cost of relief and the care taken in admin- Istoring the Society's funds. In the course of his address, Mr. Cooper said, in part:

THE

BLUE FUNNEL

REGULAR AND FAST |

FREIGHT AND

PASSENGER SERVICES

The Society is now spending at the LONDON SERVICE rate of nearly $25,000 a year. More than 90 per cent of this expenditure is incurred on behalf of the poorest Chinese familles in the Colony; families so poor that anyone not

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Last Friday, just for the purposes: of this talk, I combined a little data relating to fifty Chinese families in the western district of Hengkong.

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All of these families are now Being! assisted by the Society. The in- stances were not selected: they were taken in the order in which they INWARD were recorded. This wns what I found; In 4 per cent of the conca there was no family income, and in only one case did the estimated In- come reach $24 a month. The in- dividuals who made up those families were trying to live on an estimated average monthly income of $2.47 per head. There is, of course,

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doncy among those applying for re- Hef to minimize their income, and, in the case of casual labourers, It Impossible to devise any sure check. On the other hand,' Information gathered from various sources goes to confim. that wage-rates arg sub- stantially મ represented ly the applicants, and in сался от сла labour the estimates made by the officers of the Secretariat for Chiness Affairs correspond very closely with

cur own.

What work did these people do? I found that in half the cases, the senior male of the family, Was A street coalie: in other instances he might be hawker or a cobbler. Among the womenfolk of these fifty families, of whom about 40 per cent were nugmenting the family Income, predominant, occupations were street sewing and earth-carrying. What sort of accommodation did these peo- ple occupy? One-third of the families were able to afford the comparative luxury of a cubiclo at an averago rent of $1.10 a month. A cubicle may measure 8 feet by 8. and have parti- lona feet high. While it has the urivantage of affording a certain nmount of privacy, the partitions naturally interfere with lighting and ventilation. The remaining two-thirds of the familles concerned could afford to rent only a single bed-space, or bunk, at an average-monthly cost of

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ultation with the Society's Directors, cautions are taken to see that the and prepare monthly case and finan- milk supplied is used for the child. clal reports of the work at their Two of these precautions are periodic branches. We have Jour branch Inspection and weighing. There Secretaries: two are solicitore, one is really not much likelihood of mis- a barrister, and ode a doctor. At each appropriation of supplies by parents, of the three branches we have cause the mothers woman Inspector. She is bi-lingual, anxious to have their children put on Are genuinely accomplished in the care of sick weight, and are grateful for our beln. children, and must have initiativo and a fund på common-sense. A

Medical Ald. woman without one of those four attributes would not secure a post The second important branch of the with the Society. The children she Society's work le medleat. Discuse, deals with are referred to her care as I said, accompanies poverty, and from himny sources: the Society's in-four Inspectors try to secure appro telligence service is, in fact, the public printe medical treatment for the generally, though the vast majority of children who need it. In 1931, as a ennes nro submitted by half-starved step towards meeting the acrious mothers who have little or no milk shortage of hospital accommodation for their children and cannot afford for poor Chinese children of Kowlooni, to buy any good prepared milk food. there was started the Hospital and

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the Inspector will not give assistance Splendid wark has been done al to Chinese families in the way of that hospital by four British medical providing food, unless the family in-, to whom the Society is deeply enmo ty less than 84.00 per head per indebted Foodstuffs and medical

supplies are furnished by the So.. ziety, and the services of our formior; Twenty-six People Per Floor,

Kowloon Inspector, a trained nurse have been placed at the disposal of How many people will you find Several doubts may occur to you the Hospital. Her presence there has living in cubicles and bed-spaces on about this branch of the Society's been vital, not merely to advise the a single floor of a tenement building? work.. You may say: "I can see Chinese Sisters, but to act as an in- I merely took nine floors, and struck that the Society is relieving the torpreter of instructions given by the an average of twenty-six people per enguial of the mother who feels that doctors. The Sisters, you ree, do not floor. And how long, one may ask, her child is elipping away from her speak or read English. In a single hind these fifty families been living in for lack of nourishment, but It not year, the number of In-Patient dealt flongkong ? In four cases, the senior saving the lives of weaklings who with at that small children's hospital way of doing this in most Chinese work done by the ladies of Hongkong. member of the family was Hongkong | will later be a burden themselves has been 875, and the number of Out- and stock. Last year, with the co- the Society, he sald, must go to show cuses la by providing hawker's licences The association of such people with born: in the remaining 40 instances, and the community?" Our statistics Patients has exceeded 1.500. We the average length of resilience was show that in the majority of cases we hope that in the not too far distant operation of the Police, the Society thut the work of the Society Wa nearly 12 years.

are doing exactly the opposite. En futuro there

was able to secure 36 hawker's licences worth while and he appealed to will be established A And now two questions about the leas the Society existed, most of the children's hospital with an adequate and in most cases the parenta con Tolarians to make it part of their children. How many had been born children it helps to feed would either and trained nursing staff and proper cerned became self-supporting. Where community service to give what they for could to the furtherance at the work. to the parents of these families? Tho die in

employment cannot be securad infantile accommodation and equipment for sur- the senior members of families who number was 93. Or there, how mortality is the rottenest form, ofient work to deal with these cases have been accustomed to a higher many were living? The answer in waste in any community), or the The doctors who give us their sur standard of living, and a grant In 146, or roughly 47 per cent, or 3 per would struggle into a handicapped vices so ungrudgingly are entitled to aid is necessary for the benent of the interestce. We have the pleasure better facilities than at present exist. children, the Committee observes the

seeing the majority of these chill-

Helping Restitute Children.

principle, so far as possible, of ap- dren developing healthily. More thin

plying the money directly in payment that, we see parenthood regarded in

Just one more branch of the So- or food bills, rent, or school fees. new light by, those whose children we help to rear.

ciety's netivities I would mention be.) The speaker was thanked on the

family,

Apari altogether from. the nature of thin information (and I hope tint at least a few listeners who did not know it before will welcomte the

Providing Milk Food.

childhood

(and

The Society's Inspector is not merc-face closing. It is the most expensive motion of Rotarinn M. K. Lo, who, in ly A food distributor. She is type of work handled, and cases are the course of a few remarks, sald The greater part of the Society's teacher of all that is embodied in the usually referred for decision to the he was sorry to state that the finan work for children consists of pro-am "chill welfare." Her knowledge Executive Committee. It consists of cial statement of the Society for the viding milk food for infants whose and disert advice is respected helping children of various races xix months ending April 30 showed Grothers are unable to feed theat.most ignorant mothers, and she has where the parents. by reason of un-an excess of expenditure over Income This work is done matuly through no time to waste with those who per-jemployment, are unable to support of $5.318.50. le referred to the our three branches, two fu Hongkong sistently disregard what she has to them, or have died. As was men-spiendid work done by the officials, und one in Keston. Each brauch ja tell them, eontrolled by one or more mate!

tioned in the Society's Inst report, it | mentioning the games of Sir Shouson; is most difficult in these days of trade | Chow, Mr. F. II. Engely, Mr. W. V.

For brass copper and all metals

use

BRASSO

the polish that

sverein ries beds make itceisions in You may ask whether the food we depression to find employment for the Enger. Mr. Ceap Tani and Mr. gives a lasting shine ditieult cases, ometimes efter en rapply is not misappropriated. Pre-unemployed and the only penetical Beck, and plex made mention of the

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

United We Stand!

By Blosser

LAST DAY

OF

KOMOR'S

WATER-COLOUR

EXHIBITION

Wednesday, 9th inst,

OSSIE TRIED

TO START SOMETHING

BETWEEN TAG AND FUZZY,

AND IT'S

ACTING

LIME A BOOMERANG

YOU TAKE THE GUY WITH THE SPECS, TAG,

AND I'LL HANDLE

OSS!E!

TRYING TO START SOMETHING, HUH?

THIS'LL KEEP YOU FROM TALKING ABOUT MY PAL, FUZZY

DAVIS!

AND THE NEXT TING YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT TAG, I'LL MAKE THAT SHOEBUTTON NOSE OF YOURS INTO A ROAMIN' NOSE, AN' IT'LL ROAM ALL OVER YOUR FACE!!

GO ON....DO

AS I SAY!!

HOLLER 'UNCLE'!

I AM ENDEAVORING "TD,BUT IT ISNT QURË CLGAR TO ME WHETHER YOU WANT ME TO MENTION A PATERNAL.

UNCLE, OR ONE.ON MY MOTHER'S

SIDE !!

BAYING ALL JOKING ASIDE,.

WE WISH EVERY ONE OF

You A

MERRY XMAS