Family
New Arrivals
Substance
Misusers
Family
Violence and Sexual Assualt
Ethnic
Minorities |
|
| Health
Condition / Types of Disability |
|
|
Year | 1996 |
1998 |
2000 |
| Health
Condition / Types of Disability |
No. |
% |
No. |
% |
No. |
% |
| Normal
Health | 426 |
41.6 |
313 |
43.1 |
414 |
50.5 |
| Suspected
to be drug-addict | 256 |
25.0 |
174 |
24.0 |
168 |
20.5 |
| Suspected
to be mentally ill | 122 |
11.9 |
87 |
12.0 |
89 |
10.9 |
| Ill Health |
105 |
10.3 |
75 |
10.3 |
58 |
7.1 |
| Suspected
to be alcoholic | 67 |
6.5 |
48 |
6.6 |
48 |
5.9 |
| Physically
disabled other than blind, deaf o dumb senile dementia |
25 |
2.4 |
16 |
2.2 |
25 |
3.1 |
| Snile
/ Dementia | 7 |
0.7 |
6 |
0.8 |
7 |
0.9 |
| Deaf /
Dumb | 7 |
0.7 |
3 |
0.4 |
6 |
0.7 |
| Blind |
6 |
0.6 |
2 |
0.3 |
3 |
0.4 |
| Suspected
mentally handicapped | 2 |
0.2 |
2 |
0.3 |
1 |
0.1 |
| Total |
1023 |
100.0 |
726 |
100.0 |
819 |
100.0 |
Source: SWD. Survey
of Street Sleeper 1996,1998,2000. HK: SWD | |
