Annual report / Province of Manitoba, Department of Health and Welfare.

  • Manitoba. Department of Health and Public Welfare.
Date:
[1937]
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Credit: Annual report / Province of Manitoba, Department of Health and Welfare. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ployee. Fortunately, from the financial standpoint, the increase in the amount of work in this Division also means an increase in revenue. This increase in work and revenue is due, as stated before, to the increased requirements year by year for birth, marriage and death certificates. GENERAL During the past year the services of the Department have been further co-ordin¬ ated and the present set up, as indicated in the estimates just approved by the House, gives a true picture of the Department as a whole and its several Divisions. We believe that the rapid advance in the sum of knowledge regarding preventive medi¬ cine will be of use, not only to the citizens of this Province, but also will be of definite value to the Government itself in limiting to the minimum expenditures in respect to the care of those who now through lack of proper supervision or medical attention become totally, permanently or partially incapacitated and as a result be¬ come the responsibility of the State. RECOMMENDATIONS 1— THAT it is absolutely essential that consideration be given within the next two years to increase accommodation for cases of mental disease. (This increased accommodation could be most economically established at Selkirk.) 2— THAT an extension, as rapidly as conditions will permit, of the Mental Hygiene Clinics now operating from the Brandon Hospital for Mental Diseases should be made so the whole Province would be covered. 3— THAT increased accommodation should immediately be provided for the care of mental defectives, and the most economical plan would be the establishment of a farm colony for boys. (At the present time we have on our waiting list well over 100 individuals, whose papers have been completed for admittance to the Manitoba School for Mental Defectives.) 4— THAT an increase, as rapidly as finances will permit, should be made in the per¬ sonnel of the Division of Disease Prevention, with particular reference to the ap¬ pointment of Public Health Nurses, iSanitary Inspectors, and Food and Dairy In¬ spectors. (It is particularly urgent that the Public Health Nursing Staff be in¬ creased in order that the service they give may be carried to all Rural Manitoba.) 5— THAT we extend the present programme in reference to the control of Venereal Diseases by the establishment of more clinic periods in Greater Winnipeg and by like services at several other strategic points in the Province. (This will be ac¬ complished if the Federal Grant for Venereal Disease is re-established.) I would like to bring especially to your attention the continued splendid service rendered to the Department and people of the Province by the Chairmen and members of our three voluntary Boards, namely: Provincial Board of Health Child Welfare Board Welfare Supervision Board. It is extremely satisfying to this Department to have these Boards to refer to in case of doubt, and we trust that they will continue to serve us in the future as in the past.