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

  • Manitoba. Department of Health and Public Welfare.
Date:
[1942]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report / Province of Manitoba, Department of Health and Welfare. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    18/432 (page 14)
    on the operation of our patients’ farms, with the assistance of their grown up and semi-grown up children, under the supervision of this office. The general policy adopted by this office in connection with the handling of farms belonging to our patients has been to rent the farm in question out on a one-third crop share basis, wherever possible. In a few instances during the year, however, we have rented on a cash basis; but this is the exception and is not done if a reasonable crop share rental basis can be arranged. In a few instances during the year we have continued or renewed leases on a half crop share basis where there is a full line of machinery and equipment and where it has been indicated by the doctors at the mental hospitals that the illness of a patient will be of a reasonably short duration. We have taken advantage, wherever possible, of the Dominion of Canada Wheat Acreage Reduction Bonus, obtaining for our patients under the various farm leases our patients’ share of the bonus. We have also, in the particular instances where we are operating the farms direct ourselves, been able to obtain the bonus under “The Prairie Farms Assistance Act” which came into existence in the latter part of 1941. REAL ESTATE SALES During the year, sales were effected in seven different properties as follows: Lots 5/9, both inclusive, in Block 7, D.G.S. 106/107, St. Charles, and Part of 4/5, St. James, Plan 1697, W. L. T. 0. Lots 18/19, Block 1, D.G.S. 42-3, Parish of Kildonan, Plan 1301, W. L. T. 0. Lots 11/12, 45 St. Clements, Plan 22, Lisgar Reg. Office. W. 50 ft., Lot 45, D.G.S. 41/44, St. Vital, Plan 1052, W. L. T. O. Lots 106-7, D.G.S. 62, Portage la Prairie, Plan 17. Easterly 52Y2 ft. of Lot 1, Block 9, D.G.S. 85/86, Kildonan, Plan 1173. Lot 37 in the Outer Two miles, D.G.S. Parish of St. Andrews, excepting there¬ out the public road according to a plan of same filed in the W. L. T. O. as No. 2538. These sales were properties belonging to estates of deceased persons or estates of persons of whom we were advised there was little, if any, possibility of recovery being effected. The prices obtained were reasonable in the circumstances, but none of the properties was of a valuable nature. In addition to the properties listed, of course there were a great many instances where I was called upon to give a consent to the sale of a property in which a patient, whose estate was under administration in this office, was interested and almost invari¬ ably a consideration was obtained for the benefit of the patient in cases such as this. PERSONAL PROPERTY SALES During the year, sales of household furniture, stock, equipment and the like were held at various points throughout Manitoba, wherever possible by a licensed auctioneer. In these cases, where sales were made, the physicians at the institutions were con¬ sulted and it was found that the possibility of an early discharge from hospital was remote or the sale wras effected in order to safeguard the patient’s estate from loss.