[Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnsley County Borough.

  • Barnsley (England : Unitary authority). County Borough Council.
Date:
1934
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Credit: [Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnsley County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^152 SECTION X. WELFARE OF THE BLIND. The staff are as detailed at the beginning of the report. PREMISES. A full description of the premises was given in last year’s report:— In their present form they are inconvenient for the pur- poses of a Blind Welfare Centre, the activities of which are steadily expanding. The further and modified scheme referred to in the report for the year 1933 for a new Blind Welfare Centre on a site in the New Street Cleared Area will, it is hoped, be submitted to the Ministry of Health during the en- suing year. HOME WORKERS. In the County Borough there is one male Homeworker employed as a Newsvendor. His earnings are augmented by £1 per week. NECESSITOUS UNEMPLOYABLE BLIND. The Corporation augments the income of any necessitous unemployable blind person who has had over one year’s con- tinuous residence in the Borough, so that in the case of householders the total income will amount to 27/6 per week and in the case of non-householders, to 20/- per week. At the 31st December, 1934, 80 blind persons were in receipt of this form of assistance, viz.:— Householders 28 males „ 12 females Non-Householders 23 males „ 17 females Total 80 Compared mth the 31st December, 1933, there is an increase of five persons in receipt of this form of assistance.