Apart from the cases of enforced child-labour and prostitution which bad already been much in evidence to the outbreak of hostilities in thousands usually begged for a living and worked under the direction of a "beggar head" to whom they had to pay a daily sum for protection.
Prior to the establishment of the Child Protection Section, any child of authority concerned itself with the well-being of these children. In January 1920, a social process for handling these young victims was devised, whereby all girls and boys picked up by the police are sent to a home and each morning, sovlat workers on the of the Section call there and the se of Bivestigation and adjustiun started they the programme, depending the cireurhstances Os case, is
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