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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1936.

SOCIETY FOR PROTECTION OF RADIO

CHILDREN REVIEWS ITS WORK

ANNUAL REPORT

IS A LESSON

TO H.K.

PEOPLE

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other and more satisfactory employ-foods was useless, and that co-opera- ment is available,

ilon between these places and the Society's Branches-whe essential as only the Society had funds avaliable and for relief, and the personnel machinery for ascertaining whether rellet was necesary.

During the year 1935-1936, how kers' licences were supplied in 37 cases and renewed in 7,

It

AST year the total receipts of the Society for the Protec-being taken with such grave anxietyd by cpses to the two Govern~}

tion of Children-Hongkong's most active charitable organisation-were $22,722.69,

The revenue exceeded the expenditure by only $26.60, With the $22,710 spent during the year, the Society:

Dealt with 1,572 now cases, affecting 3,687 children; Assisted 30,355 mothers and infanla who attended regularly at the branches for advice, weighing, soup, fruit juice, cod liver Two girls" oil and various other forms of relief;

Made, through its Inspectors, 5,306 visits to children's homes;

Supplied 44 hawkora' licences to persons who otherwise, through inability to procure employment, may have starved to death;

tion

Maintained 23 children at various schools or institutions; Paid the rent in 23 cases, and gave financial aid in 101 cases; Supplied 18,398 tins of milk, 144 tins of Lactogen, 1571/mitted by the Magistrate under Sec- gallons of cod liver oil, and soup to the value of $165.89.

The Society ended the year with a financial surplus of $12.26. Every other penny that it earned went towards relieving poverty and starvation in the slums of Hongkong.

Because of lack of funds the Society could but touch the fringe of the piyaulic task if set itself when it was formed seven years ago, THE Annual Meeting of the Society, which will be attended by His Excellency the Governor and Lady Caldecott, will be held at the Helena May Institute on Thursday at 5.30 p.m. The Annual Report, which is already in the hands of subscribers, is, in part, as follows:

BROADCAST

Relay from "The Maid Of The Mountains”

“FOREIGN AFFAIRS”

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a Wavelength of 355 metres (845 k.e.'s), 31.49 metres (9.52 megacycles).

tra.

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7 p.m. Roy Fox and His Orches

7.30 p.m. Closing Locni Stock Quu- and Hongkong Exchange tationa Markel Report.

As has been said above, during the sto: Vocal--Swing is the thing;

10

These children have always been cause of great concern to the Society, which realises the magni- tude

of the problem they present and the Impossibility of dealing with it under present adequately

conditions.

Brothers.

8 p.m. Time, Weather and An- nouncements.

8.03 p.m. Concerto in ( (Avshalomaff),' (Upon Chinese Themes and Rhythms).

8.35 p.m. Light Orchestral Con. cert.

Orchestra Song of Nightingale (Hudson and Allbout); The second Serenude (Heykens); Soprano Solo- Bolero-Les Filles de Cadiz (Delibes)

My

Amelito Galli-Curci; Orchestra dreum memory (Levant); Novello); Tenor Solo Songs, that Glee me Luck my heart (Ivor

live forever (Lookton),.... Frank Titterion; Orchestra-Indiana Sweck- heart (Innsen); Soprano Solo Serenata (Tost))....Amelita Galli- Curci.

p.m. London-News and An- nouncements.

9.20 p.m. The New Mayfair Orchestra.

is largely because the new policy of the Urban Council with regard to hawkers' licences threatens The following figures taken from

Report to deprive people of this type of the

of the Director of their only hope of earning an honest Medical and Sanitary Services for living in intervals of unemployment, the year 1935, indicate the extent of that the 'Society views the measures Infant Welfare Work in the Colony. During the year 36,221 visits were Other forms of indirect relief in- clude the provision of vocational

Centres.

All these enses were ment training for the older children, feed- Chinese, though not necessarily of

2.35 p.m. Varloty. Vocal No regrets

Francis ing the mother so that she may be the poorest classes. able to feed her child, etc., ete. Five

In the period 1st November, 1935,

October, 1938, there were Faye; Saxophone Solo-I have lost boys are being maintained by the to 31st Society in the Industrial School at 0,085 patients at the Shamshulpo my heart in Budapest... Raymond Aberdeen, twelve ot the- St. Louis

Hospital and Clinic, 1,500 of these Baird: Organ Solos"Transatlantic . Reginald Industrial School,

Говерл one ut St.

being in-patients, and 7,525 out- Rhythm" Medley

Foort; Vocal-Medley of songs from patients. College and one at the Street

Temple Pictures.... Mino are being main- tained at the Convent of the Chinese year which ended on October 31st, Sisters of the Precious Blood, two 1936, there were 30,355 attendances Long about midnight.... The Mills In the Victoria Home and Orphan-at the Society's Branches, and the

age, one at the Conossian Institute. Inspectors, made 5,300 visits The expense of one other muinten honus, unce, case is

is being shared by thin

BLIND AND CRIPPLED CHILDREN Society

and the HK. Benevolent Society. The Society is assisting in one more ense which has been com- 17 of the Juvenile Offenders' Ordinance.

The care of infants while the mother works is a form of relief for which there is the greatest need. Alothers

The late Mr. M. A. Cooper, while are often obliged to spend one-third to one-half of their daily carning Society, explored the possibilities of

acting as

as Honorary Director of the in order to have their infants cared

organised curative treatment. 1 for in their absence.

Thanks to

was its ambition to found and build

โปส to the generosity of Mr.

The Li Po-chun the first step towards

no Eye-Hospital..

necessary specialist

had alling this need will shortly be

aspistance

been promised, and the late Mr. F. C. taken. Mr. Li has given to the

Jenkin had agreed to act as Chair- Society the ust for two years of a

man of the Committee. Mr. Cooper's house in Clarence Terrace, and is going to rebuild it and promin

untimely death has postponed the for use as a

in realisation of this profect The creche, Sisters will be in cliarge, and will take in those children who are sent to them by the Society's inspector. In addition Mr. Li will give one hun- dred dollars a month towards the running expenses. The Society has undertaken to furnish and equip the under

At the urgent request ot the house, and to pay the expenses over

Society, the St. John Ambulance work of obtaining hawkers and above those covered by Mr. Les Brigade has kindly taken charge of Heences and of generally assisting gift. other food is continued till the need the parents to earn their living has

Such work in of couse experimen- two blind boys. one of whom had This burden of supervision been continued, for it is the Society's tal, and besides helping to fil a long-suffered incredibly at the hands of and feeding Is

depraved brother, and was being need, will show the way for expicited by im as a beggar. carried from desire to enable parents to bear the felt

on

But month to month and from your to responsibility for their own child- future developments and extensions,

accommodation ren, not to take this responsibility and give the Society invaluable car until the family is able to sup-

Lwo from those to whom port itself. Cases sill under super.

it properly

of the requirements of The Urban Council, which the poor

rly knowledge viskin at the beginning of the belongs.

mothers, and of how Society's

year in November since the beginning of the year has o

voudduct печ

relief of this type. The numbered 721.

taken the place of the Police This year,

creche will be free to mothers in- in 1,033 cases are carried forward being dealing with licences, has helped us troduced by the Society's Inspectors,

and the Sisters not

WI

nt first, ex- supervision on 31st Octo-s for as possible. ber.

Recently

the Urban Counell has cept in cases of emergency, take in of the new cases in the last yeur, polley which has for its ultimate Billy.

eur.announced its intention of Initiating other brbles on their own responsi

Such medical 224 were reported to the Society by

attention

The question of blind and crippled Ocers

of Clinies. Hospitals and aim the abolition of food-hawkers, may be needed by the infants will be child beggars has been the subject Prior to the inception of the Sn- Government. Welfare Centres, and Already no new licences are being provided, and they will be fed,

of conference between the Inspector- clety no one Had considered the needs by Magistrates and Police; 1,308 issued for the hawking of food and The responsibility for the creens General of Police and the Society.of the children of the Colony as a

cigareties.

Is the directly by parents, relatives or

Society's and it will work 'n From information obtained from in- whole. There were no data upon members of the public; while

sources, it would appear which to work, or from which i were found by Inspectors,

of the results of

the donor, both of whom are

that many of such a policy. which will deprive it of the means represented on the Executive Com-children found on the streets are The first real step taken was the af enabling widows to support mittee. The creche will be named almost certainly being exploited for appointment of Miss

Wai Cheung as the first Inspector. Miss The Police have powers of

inSchool and at the Diocesan_Girls

Ginling University where she took in suitable her BA in Sociology.

It was soon discovered that if the Is sufficient

I

During the year ending October | three Branches during 1035-1930 31, 1936, the Society dealt with 1,572 have reached the huge total of 30,- new cases, affecting 3.687 children as | 355. compared with 1,173 new cases The Inspectors make regular visits affecting 2,170 children last year. to the children's homes, the total The total number of cases dealt number of such visits during the -with by the Society since its founda-

Elon is 5,864 Involving 11,751 child-5,339 last year.

year being 5,306 us compared will ren. Of the 1,572 cases dealt with this year,

1,000 required medie: altention.

Home

In addition to new cases there are cases to which a supply of milk or

CHELS.

успе

1035

Still

under

1936.

AVERAGE INCOME

The

30

average income per head per month of the eases dealt with

In 1032 It was $2.03, this year It has fallen as low as $1.73.

Often mothers whose income is as much as $100 a month or even more, come to ask our Inspectors for ad- vice without applying for any other

Thic

HAWKERS' LICENCES

it

in

But Гог blind and crippled children a permanent home needed, as well as a hospital. Though there are several institu-

tions which will receive blind girls, there i no place in the Caluny where blind boys may find a home,

D

Hospital, where these

at the Haw Par

have found sheller, is limited, and oreover, the Ambulance Brigade cloes not consider that this hospital can properly be regarded as a suita- ble permanent home for blind child- Pen.

There is no home In Hongkong for crippled children.

Britelodia (Humphries): Jerome Kern Melodies; Cnvalende of Martial Songs (arr. Nicholls).

9.40 p.m. From the Studio. Colleen Parker (Vocal) with Doreen Ma (Piano).

10 p.m. London-Big Ben, Talk: "Foreign Affales" by Sir Frederick Whyte, K.c.8.1. LL.B.

10.10 p.m. Relay-A portion of the 2nd Act of "The Maid of the Moun- tains" (Fraser-Simson) played by the Hongkong Philharmonie Society, from the Queen's Theatre.

11 p.m. Close Down,

astrous to adults, and entails, suffer- ing and poverly for their children.

SOCIETY'S ACTIVITIES

A brief reference to the principal activities of the Society since its be- ginning in 1920 seems appropriate.

The Hoctrty is very apprehensive close co-operation with the Sisters dienendent the blind and crippled policy could be formulated.

themselves and their children. The matter

being

und

ous cases

thn

such.

Seto

children, as well as waccommodation is

final ** | Society's work was to be effective, its

Centres.

tres.

of these

afler wie Li's mother "The Yuet Sin their earnings ns beggars, is arrest. Selo was educated at St. Paul's Girls' closely all its relief work, both direct and the Juvenile Offenders Ordine School in Hongkong, and later at the -has-been steadily decreasing-since-examined by a Sub-Committee with and indirect, the Society has con- Die Society's inception.

view to making proposals which tinued to co-operate with the vari

rives the Magistrates ample authority

to arrange may lead to a relaxation of the ban

shall be on the issue of licences when the ous Government Departments con- This gives come idea of the applicants are

cerned

ns with cure. But with recommended

until by other charitable poverty which prevails among the responsible charities and have no this

organisations, classes for whom the Society works,, other possible means of making

represents a very important valescent homes, and, in homes for

con Inspectors must gain entry Into the especially when it is realised that livelihood.

part of its work. The most striking- the

the incurable, the majority of

worst slums and break down the re-

towards shown children must place their only hope eve the figure includes the average In-

strangers. It must be realised that at presently successful example of such co- come of every family whether the

only operation is with the doctors who of survival in begging, either inde whose interest, however kindly, was Society gives rellef or not, which families without work

complete novelty to the poor. of pre in charge the

pendently or for those who exploit Government support. themselves by hawking, fant

Children were found Welfare comes to the Branches.

them. The

Permanent homes for them of starvation and disease, and the be dying with

or without a licence, or by

are 21 most urgent need of the need for. proper artifelal feeding of begging. Begging for food is normal Society sends to the Centres numer- for

Colony. them.

in need Anyone can have his

of medical

babies and for medical assistance was rice-bowl filled by visiting the shops to the poorer cases, originating at

attention, and in its turn gives rel

relict

MUI TSAI

quickly apparent, while the rarity of or family houses. But money for the Centres, thus supplementing the problems

There are

several major 'social [Physical cruelty to Chinese children rent and clothing, can, is the ab- work

in the Colony which, was swiftly established, of the Centres. Purely though they do not fali directly It was also early recognised that sence Any

system of public relief, work only be obtained by hawking or beg-medical relief would be useless if within the scope of the Society's no suund policy could be formulated King, or

by crime.

the children receiving It died of activities, yet are of great indirect unless the Society possessed reliable Certainly the

the officers

the malnutrition, as would often happen Importance for the welfare of chil-information as to the conditions pre- Society and the poor parents them-

if it were not for the Society.

dren.

vailing among the very poor, and Recently a Commission came from from the outset great care was taken should maintain themselves by

England to enquire into and report to make full enquiries In order that and on the Mul Teal question. As the reliable statistics could be

Report is not yet available, the mat-piled. and any criticisms or commentary 'ter must be regarded as rub judice

would be at present; out of place,

The Society may, however, venture to express a hope that the Commis- slon's work will result in some solu- tion being found which will remove all reprouch from the Colony, and at the same time safeguard the in-

assistance.

DIRECT RELIEF

The depression hus made itself tell even among the poorest of the poor. Among the Society's cases last year 221 had no income at all: this year the number without in- come has Increased to 312.

The Inspectors report lower in- comes and an increase of malnutri- tion. The latter report is confirmed by the doctors at the Hospital of the Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood at Shamshulpo, who say that beel-her! among children and mothers appears to be growing more frequent.

•

MALNUTRITION).

In Kowloon It has been found that by supplying soup to the nursing mothers, artifical feeding of the in- fonts can often be avoided or re- duced with good results. This method of relief

now being

is

extended to the Western Bruncli

ΤΟ ensure that Infants old enough

of

of

selves would prefer that the familles erally is very largely dependent on The value of welfare work gen-

the

strict observance of the law, avoid the distance between the home begging, and have a licence to hawk, the Infant Welfare Centre and the but for many of them there is no of having two Branches in Kowloon

Society's Branches.

The question alternative; they must break letter of the law, or starve,

to cover more effectively the very large areas there inhabited

by the If, by the refusal of the authori-

very poor is under serious considers ties to issue hawkers' licences, the tion.

Seventy-three per cent of the Society is rendered unable to make cases dealt with in Kowloon Govern- familles self-supporting. there willment Infant Welfare Centre come he only two alternatives; to allow

from homes in the neighbourhood of the children to die of starvation the Centre. The percentage in Wan-terests of the girls, rightly or wrongly which is unthinkable; or to main-chai is 79.

ain the children at the expense of

the charitable, which will mean a larly with the Secretary for Chinese

The Society also co-operates regu very serious strain on the Society's Affairs, funds, and tend to pauperise the family.

"INDIRECT RELIEF

This help takes many forms, for

carc

known as Mui Tsai, who are at pre- sent in Hongkong, and of those of be brought here. It might be advis that status who may In the future the Inspector-General able to reiterate that complaints of Police and the Magistrates. In

Ill-treatment of Mul Tsal are very many cases its work is complemen- rarely made to the Society,

"INFANT WELFARE WORK When the Society was founded In

tary.

The

HOUSING

com-

Between Mr. Hazlerigg, Miss Seto and a strong and aetive Committee the policy of the Snelety was grad- ually laid down on sound lines.

The first main principle laid down was "that no child brought to the notice of the Society should be permitted to die of starvation." The carrying out of this policy last year alone has resulfed in the supplying of milk to 1,548 cases, the purchase of 18,308 tins of con densed milk. of 157 gallons of cod liver oil, In addition to fruit Jalee, soup, etc.

The confidence of the mothers hav- ing been won, the next and even

appareat.

more difcult task was to induce to do without milk foods do not lose Instance arranging with doctors and

them to place their trust in medical ground through insumcient nutri- hospitals for proper medical

overcrowding problem i, practitioners, or as they called it

"Western medicine." tion, soup is also given to them for parents, or finding them work, 1929, there was no organised infant ever-present in the Report of the

lack facilities where necessary.

Frequently this has meant getting welfare work in the Colony, and the Director of Medical and Sanitary Older children and adults seem to be able to live on a rice de sumit for them a hawker's licence, supply- Society quickly realised that herein Services for the year 1935 It is suited medical advice for or obtaining lay a most important part of its that in the Western and West- mothers and their children led to the ing stock, and giving general_as= showing obvious signs of malnutri-distance until the venture

work.

Central districts of Victoria, there are that white !! could not be the fung

acceptance of the second principle, proves AL tion, but deficiency diseases are very successful.

Best the Society's Inspectors two hundred acres where the den- common. The insufficiency

run hospitals and institutions of a of such a diet is, howevincient It has always been the Society's found considerable reluctance on the sity of population is at least one thou- tion of the Society to establish and

part policy to avoid pauperisallon. In with

of thothers to have dealings sand to the acre.

In England a district where the similar nature, it should, to the ately apparent in the nursing and

anything that savoured of some cases of temporary sickness of Western methods, and much, anta-

density Is five hundred to the acre utmost of its powers financial or expectant mother, as well as in the the parent wage-earner the Society

otherwise, encourage and assist in Konlum to Western

is reckoned "Black Slum medicine. The youngest infants.

Pending the findings of the Con-ons for children, the need of which the establishment of those Institu- provides medical attention, and cares ullnck on this problem was, Miss mission appointed by the Caverns, The results of the_last ́ ́year's for the children. In

cases, by the Society's Inspector,

·work make it clear that there is mess of the parents may make it Selo Wat Cheung, to whose patience ment to look inle housing conditions. the Society's Investigations had made need for a very much wider and quite impossible for them to earn deeper enquiry into the causes of alving, and then it may be that

and tact in the initial stages of the not much can be usefully said, except malnutrition,

nothing short of providing for the

work the Colony owes a great debt. to emphasize that no casual relief.

can save from disease children who It may well be that Ignorance of entire family is sufficient to protect retirement robs the Society of a

Doctor McGowan, whose recent are brought up in such conditions, propor diet is almost as great-n

the children.

Of all the 1,572 cases' dealt with Happily such cases factor of poverty, Even if the are

much-valued The

friend Society

and helper, by the Society. In the last year. is most Ire- fumily means are adequate it does queatly called upon to assist cates Working with our Inspectors at

the

004 families were found to be able, and Clinic of the Chinese follow that the diet is in which the parents are able and always"

to afford a bedspace only for their Sisters

of the Precious: Blood in quite satisfactory, but it is yel more willing to work but cannot find em- Shamshulpo, was the first to con

home. 2 important that the "poverty line" ployment. It is then the Society's quer the antipathy to Western medi-

DRUCSA income should be spent in the best alm to make the family self-support-cine in Kowloon; Dr. (Mrs.) Hunter apprehension the undoubted rapid in- The Society views with growing possible manner.

-ing. Employment is, however, cx- Mothers and infants attend

at the Infant Welfare Centre Increase which has recently taken place regu- ceedingly dimeult to find and the Johnson Rond succeeded in doing in the heroin traffic in the Colony, lorly at the Society's Branches for Society is generally, as has been the same

In Hongkong. The work and welcomes, the Government's adulte, weighing, soup, other forms liene ca vad to providing a hawker's at the Clinic and the Centre showed decision to gand uses of such trume advice,

liver oil and various

lienece and stock-in-trade, so that a that among the youngest ot relict. The attendances at the living may be thus obtained until medicalikul without; suitable milk to stamp out a trade which la dis-

Infants for trial at the Sessions in an attempt.

not

are rare.

*

The polley of the Society in this not sufficiently widely respect is understood. Sooner or later the majority of the families wilch come (Continued on Page 10.)

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