[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.

  • Cumberland County Council
Date:
1948
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Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HOME EMPLOYMENT. On the 31st March, 194S, there were 7 blind persons in tlie home workers scheme emploved in the following occn- ])ations :— Occupation Braille Copyist Piano Tuning Fanning Basket Making Boot Repairing Men Women Total — 2 2 2 — 2 1 — 1 1 — 1 1 — 1 5 2 7 HOME TEACHING AND VISITING SERVICES. There are 3 home teachers (2 qualifted and 1 imqualihcd) on the staff of the Cumberland and Westmorland Home and Workshops for the Blind, who cover the administrative County to as fai south as Egremont (taking in North West- morland), whilst the home teacher employed b}- the Barrow Furness and Westmorland Society for the Blind covers the southern part of the County, which in the main consists of the Rural District of Millom. GENERAL SOCIAL WELFARE OF THE BLIND. Pursuant to the Council’s approved scheme under Section 29 of the National Assistance Act, 194S, and by virtue of Section 30 (1) of the Act, it has been decided that the Cum- berland and Westmorland Home and Workshops for the Blind should continue to act as agents of the County Council in the discharge of the Councils’ functions under Part I of the scheme, for a period not extending beyond the 31st March, 1950, on the basis of the arrangements in force on the 14th April, 1949, (the date the scheme came into operation) or such amendments or modifications thereof as may subsecjucntly be apju'ovcd and adopted by the Welfare Sub-Committee, it being the intention of the r.ub-committee to review the whole of the arrangements and decide as to how far and to what extent the functions under Section 29 should be discharged directly by the Welfare Sub-Committee. A similar arrange- ment has been entered into with the Barrow, Furness and Westmorland Society for the Blind. (c) WELFARE OF THE DEAF AND DUMB AND HARD OF HEARING. Section 29 of the .-\ct contemplates that local authorities will provide for the deaf and Ar dumb welfai'e seiudces .similar iu character to those at irrcsent provided for blind persons, and paragraph Ki of part II of the Council’s Scheme