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JOHANNESBURG INDIAN S-riAI WELFARE ASSOCIATION.

MINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE JOHANNESBURG

INJIAN SOCIAL '..'ELF ABE association held

IN TEE INDIAN CLINIC, 15 BREE STREET,

F0RDS3URG, JOHAlu'jESBURG, ON Tr.U5.SJAY 26 th

JUiiE iq 1+7.

P-iESENT: Mrs. W. Hoertile (in the Chair) Mr. Ernest, Miss Katz, M^s. C.

Kuper, Mr. K . G. I'oodley, Miss Rochman, fir. Royeppen, Miss E. Hunt

(Hon. Secretary).

1. AFCLOJjIES: kiss 5-ranger, Mr. Muller, Miss Shaer, Mr. Vandayer.

Mrs. Hoernle announced that Mrs. Ritchie had returned from England and wished

to receive the minutes of the meetings of the Association.

2. COFriRMATIO: 0? ENVIOUS IiiUTES:

The minutes of the pr3vious moating, having V ’<m circulated, woro taken

as r >ad and wore confirmed.

3 • MATTERS ARISING OUT OF PREVIOUS t/INUTES:

(a) Mat rr.ltT Hospital.

Mrs. Eoernle told tho mooting that Taragwanath Hospital would 'bo opened to

Non-Europeans in Oc^ob t and would have a maternity ward for Non-Europeans

with 20 "bods, which would be eixpandei to 20 "'eds. The Provincial authorities

also planned a maternity ward for Non-Europeans at Coronation.

(b) Mot r Car: ‘

Nothing dafinit* could be done about the new car until the return from

Durban of Mr. Ernest Hunt of Williams, Hunt &. Cr-. Ltd. Mr.. Arood Mia would

give £50 as a special donation towards the cost of the car.

U. SOCIAL WORKER'S: REPORT. MAY 1QU7.

"I paid the following visits duffing lost month:

Fords^urg, Vrededorp ........................................... 103

Doornfontein, ‘Pertrams, r ez. Valley, City

Su^ur^an ....................................... .......................... 79

Ferreirastown, Newtown....................................... 28

Denver, Cleveland, Vollhuter ................. 25

Newlands, Newclare, ATbortsvillo, Sophia-

town .......................................................................... 59

On my rounds I found quite a number of children with mumps. 'They

usually go hack to school after n few doys and in this way infect tho »ther

children, .is + he woath-'r is still warm we hive not had the pneumonia cases

as lost year* The M rthratc for the last year is ~[00 babies, Th-' death rate

am»ngst In dian bjb i -s is the lowest in this city.

Groceries: We are still selling groceries. The prices h-ve gone up and

are the same as the retail prices. T eforo the groceries wer.^ always "below

retail price. I intend to continue the sale of groceries as our people can

only obtain rice, si*gar, candles and tea at "black market prices.

Child welfare: We ae l i d for one new case - a widow with 5 minor children.

All ■’■'ut three of our oases hare b. en renewed. Those th'oe cases have not yet

received honks. I rang Pretoria, and again sent in a list of their correct

address 's, hut Ur. van Ronavurg of the Social -Welfare Department informed me

th- t he could do no more. I appli d for Poor Relief and rent for these cases.

Poor/........ 2

Poor Roll of: Tho cases in receipt of increased Maintenance Grants are no

longer allow'd to reoeive rations. Most of the factories are working' part-

time and are retrenching staff. I h.'.ve sent 7 poo le Tho applied for help

to tho unemployment "bureau. Four returned to inform mo that they got a card

and will reoeive £l/lO/- p r wo--k. In two caeas I apolied -"or family allow­

ances, >oth of wnich are ex-soldiers who cannot settle down. They are not

entitled to anymore help from the Goverrv-r General's National War Fund.

They are hawking at pr «sont. They t'oth have incomes under *9 per month

and moro than three children. For anoth r ox-soldior I found work at Mia’ s

farm as an all-round hand. Most of the ex-soldiers do not seem to he able to

settle down.

Old Age Pension: We applied for six moro c as ’s for Old A g ; Pensions. In one

case an old woman who liv«P in Kliptown Is supposed to IOC, she lives -dth

her widowed daughter who is 56 years old. \<hon I went there I found a young

'boy in h^d, vho was mentally deficient, "^ut had worked till a few months ago.

I referred this case to the Mental Hygiene and requested the District Surgeon

to exanino him.

Clinic: This month we did not have as many patients as the previous months.

We attended to 99 pati 'nts. Four pregnant mothers aro receiving courses of

injections. One patient ^ho was 4 months pvegnant and had a "blood pressure of

over 2*£ was sent to hospital, and the huhy was removed, in order to save ^he

mother's l ife . 'Twenty-five school children were treated at the clinic and

nineteen school children were injected against diphtheria.

Dental: We attended to l6U • hildren during Mav - 12 dressings, 30 fillings

and 112 extractions.

Moses ^oy: The Mos«s hoy will "be admitted to the deaf and dumb schorl at

IVitteboom. Ke must bring an outfit with him. I still have money on hand

from the pension and I will he able to huy it .

5. MATTERS ARISING OUT OF SOCIAL *0 -K^’ S REPORT.1 • 1

( a) Rations:

Mrs. Hoernle stressed the necessity for claiming tho maximum grunt of £6

in cas's where rution allowances wero no longer received.

(h) Clinic:

(jr s . Hoernle sug ested that M ps Katz ask Dr. Grunther to compile a

list tfthe neiv ius’irumuntb required in the Clinic arid enquire iron Dr. Jjra^er

whether he could huy them for the Clinic at a reduced rate.

6. FINANCE:

(a) Tho Financial Statement was presented "by Mrs. Hoernle, and was g^optpd_

o.nd confirmed.

(h) Mrs. Hoernle reported that Mr. Parhhoo had accompanied her on her visits

and that, during June she had collected £229/-/“ donations*

(c) Mrs. Hoernle suggested that a letter ho sent to the Provincial Secretary

•pr inting out that sinco tho original application for a grant tho work at the

Clinic hod increas id considerably, thut five schools in the area w:r c served

■by tho Clinic as well <is toing visit d "by the Social Worker, that the As so ela­

tion now had a fully equipped Dental Clinic at ’jhich conservative work ^as

done, and upon which their own t/odical Inspector had reported v-r^ favourably,

and th 't , in view of this expansion the Association felt justified in requesting

that the Annual Grant >>0 increased to £200.AGREED.

(d) On Mrs. H- ernle’ s suggestion,

IT WAS AGREED that the Association h j authorised to pay tho whole of itsAnnual S cret rlal f e to the Institute of Race R-'l tlc.ns_at

once.

O ) / ........ 3

(e) The Secretary was instructed to write to the Muslim Institute to remind

them of fheir guarantee to pay three-quarters of the salary of the /issistant

Social worker, and to ask for an amount of £8}/5/~ for the six months ending

30th June 19U7 .

7 . OQjaHSSPOIfiHSHCB:

(a) letter from the System Manager. ( S .A .R . S- E .) in connection with the

shortage of first and second class accommodation on He of and Pretoria electric

trains, regretted that until navy roiling stock, now on order, arrived in this

country, tho number of vehicles on the trains could not ^e increased. He

stated that trhen suitable vahicl s wore avail ̂ l e stops would he taken to

eliminate congestion.KOTED.

(h) letter from the Secretary. Food Suppli es and Distribution stated that tho

Union had heen granted an all! cation of 15,000 Lon8 of rice for the first six

months of this year, ^ut that we did not receive any allocation from Portuguese

East Africa and oouid not, therefore, entertain offors for importation from that

source.HO TIP.

8 . SMB.aflL:

( a) Represente.tion on other ^odi os:

Owing to the difficulty Mr. Royoppm experienced in attending meetings

of the Transvaal Crippl > Caro Association,

IT Vv.\S inWEDsOUSLY AiRESi} to elect Mr. Z. 5 . K i r i l o v a s this Association1s

representative on the Transvaal Crip~les1 Care

Ass-cigtioft .

(h) Leave:

As Miss Hochman, the Assistant Social Worker, was taking the remainler

of her annual leave ani woul l be away for 22 lavs from 30th June, the Comrrittee

conveyed its hest wishes to her for a happy hoii la?/.

TET $ BEING- NO FURTHER 'USIUESS TC DISCUSS, THE MEETINj ENDED

5.50 P.U.

Collection Number: AD1715

SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF RACE RELATIONS (SAIRR), 1892-1974

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