Report On the Enquiry into Begging and Destitution in the Gold Coast 1954

Abstract

Within recent years there seems to have been a sudden increase in the number of persons found begging in the streets of the larger towns of the Gold Coast. The public have expressed concern at the sight of dirty and mentally defective people lying about in the road or on the sidewalks. In a rapidly developing country some provision has to be made for handicapped people when the problem assumes striking proportions. For this reason one or two previous attempts have been made to determine the number of Destitute in different towns in the country.