Occupation Centres and Home Training in Middlesex
News and Notes
A scheme has recently been developed in the County of Middle- sex for the organisation of Occupation Centres and Home Training. In the past the C.A.M.W. has received a grant from the Middle- sex County Council of ^50 for a full time Centre and ^25 for each half time centre, while the running expenses were met by direct grants to the separate Centre Committees. This system was found incon- venient and it was suggested that a block grant should be paid to the C.A.M.W. to cover both administrative costs and running expenses. The C.A.M.W. made application for this and the Middlesex County Council have agreed to pay a grant of ,?2,094 Per annum to cover the actual working costs and cost of administration of a scheme to include the organisation of six Occupation Centres and of a peripatetic Home Teacher of defectives in the County of Middlesex.
The internal management of the Centres is still to be carried on by the local Centre Committees but a Central Committee for the dis- tribution of the grant has been appointed and consists of representatives of the Middlesex County Council and of the C.A.M.W., and of each of the local Centre Committees.
Centres have already been opened at Edmonton?(including the districts of Tottenham and Ponders End), Ealing (including Acton), Willesden and Wood Green. A Home Teacher is to be appointed and will begin work almost immediately.
Sterilisation.
As a result of the publicity given in the Press recently to the question of the sterilisation of the mentally defective, we have had many requests for copies of the pamphlet issued by us giving the results of the special enquiry made by our Medical Committee on this subject, and also for the later pamphlet by Dr A. F. Tredgold. These are out of print at the moment but they are now being revised and re- printed and, it is hoped, will be available some time in May.
Ministry of Health Circular 1,000. The Minister of Health has issued a General Circular on the Local Government Act, 1929, to all County, Town, Urban and Rural District Councils.
The Minister sets out what have appeared to him to be the out- standing defects of the present system of local government, to remedy which the present Act was devised and also sets out the main points of general principle underlying the Act. He deals with the transfer of Poor Law Work to Local Authorities under which the Local Author- ities are made responsible for?
vaccination,
infant life protection,
for the collection of the fundamental vital statistics,
(4) severally or jointly for the provision, maintenance and man- agement of all public institutions for the cure or mitigation of phys- ical or mental disease.
With regard to the position of Voluntary Associations whose activities cover the whole or numerous parts of the country, to avoid the difficulty of collecting contributions piecemeal from large numbers ?f Local Authorities, the Minister has power, both in relation to the schemes already described and otherwise, to pay contributions at the request of the Local Authority directly to any voluntary association having as its object the promotion of public health services to which the Authority are entitled, and desire to make them, and to deduct the amount so paid from the Council’s sha/e of the new consolidated grant. Copies of the Circular can be obtained from H.M. Stationery Office, Adastral House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2. Price 3d. net.
British Social Hygiene Council
The Fourth Summer School of the Council will be held from July 25th to August 1st next at Westminster College, Cambridge. The Course will include six lectures on Biology and Human Affairs by Professor F. A. E. Crew (Professor of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh) and 5 lectures on Public Health and Social Hygiene by Col. P. S. Lelean (Professor of Public Health, Edinburgh University). The programme also includes some interesting evening meetings followed by discussion.
Full particulars may be obtained from the Secretary, British Social Hygiene Council, Carteret House, Carteret Street, London, S.W.i.
Hostels in London.
The Central Council for the Social Welfare of Girls and Women in London have recently brought out a new edition of the Handbook ?f Hostels in London for Professional and Working Women and Girls. The object of the handbook is to assist girls and women to obtain suitable hostel accommodation in London, and the list, with a few exceptions, is restricted to those hostels which charge Two Guineas a week or less.
The book can be obtained, price 1/- (post free i/id.), from the Secretary, Central Council for the Social Welfare of Girls and Women in London, 117, Piccadilly, London, W.i.
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