Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health [to] the Corporation of the City of Capetown.

  • Cape Town (South Africa). City Health Department.
Date:
[1934]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health [to] the Corporation of the City of Capetown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    being 1,029 (140 European and 889 non-European). The maintenance money is administered partly as mothers’ pensions, for women whose husbands have died or become permanently incapacitated, so that the home can be kept together by the natural guardian of the children; and partly as grants for orphaned children who have no relatives in a position to maintain them. Non-Support. The Non-Support offices at the Magistrates’ Courts operate in connection with children whose fathers are ordered by the court to make regular payments in support. The fathers are required to make their payments to these offices instead of to the mothers personally. During the year ended 30th June, 1934, <£12,636 Os. 5d. was received from the fathers by the office of the Capetown Magistrate and during the year ended 31st December, 1934, an amount of £155 4s. Od. was received by the Simonstown Magistrate in respect of the part of his magisterial area that falls within the Capetown Municipality. The Wynberg Magistrate in the year ended 30 th June, 1934, received approximately £2,096 13s. 3d. in .respect of the whole of his area, which is not entirely within the Capetown Municipality. Medical Relief (Outdoor). The City Council provides medical attention in their own homes for indigent sick persons needing such service. The work is carried out by a full-time medical officer appointed in the City Health Department. The appointment is for a period of six months and is intended for junior practitioners who have completed house appointments in the general hospitals. Arrangements for the supply of medicines, etc., are made with the Capetown Free Dispensary and the Woodstock Hospital, and with local chemists. This work is carried out in co-operation with the District Nursing Organization. The visits made by the medical officer during the year ended 30th June, 1934. were as follows : — W aid .1 . . 15 Ward 9 . . ... 246 y y 9 . . 91 „ 10. . ... 30 y y 3 . . 90 „ 11. . ... 100 y y 4 . . 173 „ 12 . . ... 171 y y 5 . . 28 „ 13 . . ... 107 y y 6 . . 441 „ 14 . . ... 57 7 . . 364 15 . 68 y y 8 . 959 Not allocated. Total ... 9 ... 2,235 Under the City of Capetown Additional Poor Relief Ordinance, No. 5 of 1932, the Provincial Administration pays the Council part-refund of one-half of the cost of this service. Hospitals, Convalescent Homes, Dispensaries and District Nursing. Certain of the hospital facilities of the City are provided b}^ the City Council, including the City Hospital for Infectious Diseases, the clinics for Tuberculosis and for Venereal Diseases, and the native hospitals at Langa and N’dabeni. Particulars in regard to these, and also the Council’s maternal and child welfare centres, are embodied in this report. The Capetown Infirmary is maintained by the Provincial Administration. Otherwise, the hospital services in the Cape Peninsula are administered by the Cape Hospital Board. The Hospital Board serves the areas of the Capetown Municipality and of the Cape Divisional Council with the urban areas included therein. It is composed of eighteen members, of whom three are appointed by the Administrator, three by the honorary medical staff, six by the local authorities, and six by the registered contributors. The Capetown City Council has two representatives. The Board obtains its funds from voluntary sources, contributions from the local authorities concerned, and the Provincial Government subsidy. In the year ended 31st December, 1933, the expenditure of the Board amounted to £135,111, of which £36,923 was contributed by local authorities, viz., £19,296 by the Cape Divisional