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INVALID CHILDREN'S AID ASSOCIATION
(East Ham Branch).
Again, I have to report on the excellent work carried out
by the above Association, which has continued to co-operate with
this department as in past years.
New cases have been referred to them as follows:—
School Medical Department 44
Tuberculosis Officer 16
Infant Welfare Department 5
During the year 183 cases have been assisted in the following
manner: —
Sent to Sanatoria, Schools of Recovery or Convalescent
Homes 131
Boarded out 4
Surgical appliances 23
Food and clothing grants 13
Visiting, advice, loan of carriages, etc. 12
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT,' 1929.
The following is a brief synopsis of the administrative scheme
of the Council as approved by the Ministry of Health:—
1. All domiciliary assistance to blind persons shall be provided
exclusively by virtue of the Blind Persons Act, 1920, and
not by way of poor relief.
2. It is the intention of the Council that, as soon as circumstances
permit, all assistance, other than such as is dealt with in
paragraph (1) above, which could, after the 1st April, 1930, be
provided either by way of poor relief or by virtue of any of the
Special Acts, shall be provided exclusively by virtue of the appropriate
Act, and not by way of poor relief, but nothing in this
Scheme shall diminish or otherwise affect the duty of the Council
under Section 34 of the Poor Law Act, 1927, to provide relief
for the poor.
3. That a Committee of the Council, to be called the Public
Assistance Committee, be constituted, consisting of 14 persons,
who shall be members of the Council, and including the Mayor
and Deputy Mayor, who shall be members of the Committee by
virtue of their office,