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Legislative Assembly","@language":"en"}],"DateAvailable":[{"@value":"2018-08-16","@language":"en"}],"DateIssued":[{"@value":"1965","@language":"en"}],"DigitalResourceOriginalRecord":[{"@value":"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/collections\/bcsessional\/items\/1.0371069\/source.json","@language":"en"}],"FileFormat":[{"@value":"application\/pdf","@language":"en"}],"FullText":[{"@value":" PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\nAnnual Report of the\nDepartment of Social Welfare\nfor the\nYEAR ENDED MARCH 31\n1964\n  Victoria, B.C., November 20, 1964.\nTo Major-General the Honourable George Randolph Pearkes,\nV.C., P.C., C.B., D.S.O., M.C.,\nLieutenant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia.\nMay it please Your Honour:\nThe Annual Report of the Department of Social Welfare for the year en\nMarch 31, 1964, is herewith respectfully submitted.\nW. D. BLACK,\nMinister of Social Welfare.\n The Honourable W. D. Black,\nMinister of Social Welfare, Victoria, B.C.\nSir,\u2014I have the honour to submit the Annual Report of the Department of\nSocial Welfare for the year ended March 31, 1964.\nE. R. RICKLNSON,\nDeputy Minister of Social Welfare.\n DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE\nApril 1, 1963, to March 31,1964\nHon. W. D. Black Minister of Social Welfare.\nSENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF\nE. R. Rickinson Deputy Minister of Social Welfare.\nJ. A. Sadler   Director of Social Welfare.\n Assistant Director of Social Welfare.\nR. J. BurnhaM\u2014\nDIVISIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ADMINISTRATION\n.Departmental Comptroller.\n.Superintendent of Child Welfare.\n.Superintendent, Brannan Lake School for Boys.\n.Superintendent, Willingdon School for Girls.\n.Director of Medical Services.\n.Chairman, Old-age Assistance and Blind Persons'\nand Disabled Persons' Allowances and Supplementary Assistance.\nPersonnel Officer.\nSuperintendent, Provincial Home.\n.{Casework Supervisors, Social Ass\nMrs. J. P. Scott {    Rehabilitation Division.\nD. W. Fowler Training Supervisor.\nMrs. M. Titterington. Supervisor, Social Service Departme\nof Tuberculosis Control.\nJ. McDlARMID_\nMiss W. M. Urquhart.\nDr. P. W. Laundy\t\nE. W. Berry\t\nMrs. M. Dighton\nG. P. Willie\t\nN. S.\nt, Division\nA. A. Shtpi\n\u2014Chief Inspector of Welfare Institutions.\nREGIONAL ADMINISTRATION\nMiss M. Jamieson Administrator, Region I.\nH. E. Blanchard Administrator, Region II.\nR. I. Stringer Administrator, Region III.\nW. J. Camozzi Administrator, Region IV.\nV. H. Dallamore Administrator, Region V.\n Administrator, Region VI.\n Administrator, Region VII.\nCONSULTANTS\nW. H. Crossley_\nMrs. C. Mackenzie..\nF. S. Hatcher\t\nMiss B. W. Snider\u2014\n-Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Services.\n^.Medical Social Work.\n  TABLE OF CONTENTS\nPart I.\u2014General Administration:\nDirector of Social Welfare\t\nAssistant Director of Social Welfare\t\nPart II.\u2014Regional Administration:\nRegion I\t\nRegion n\t\nRegion III\t\nRegion IV\t\nRegio\nRegio:\nVH_\nPart III.\u2014Divisions:\nSocial Assistance and Rehabilitation Division\t\nChild Welfare Division !\t\nMedical Services Division \u25a0.\t\nOld-age Assistance, Blind Persons' Allowances, Disabled Persons' Allowances, and Supplementary Assistance\t\nPart IV.\u2014^Institutions:\nBrannan Lake School for Boys .\t\nWillingdon School for Girls\t\nProvincial Home, Kamloops\t\nWelfare Institutions Board\t\nPart V.\u2014Social Work Services:\nDivision of Tuberculosis Control and Pearson Poliomyelitis Pavilion\t\nPart VI.\u2014^Accounting Division I\t\n  Report of the Department of Social Welfare\nPART 1.\u2014GENERAL ADMINISTRATION\nREPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE\nJ. A. Sadler\nThe demand on Government for welfare services continues at a steady pace,\nand this can be expected in view of the rising population in the Province.\nIn order to provide the best possible welfare services, continuous study and\nplanning have been carried out. Staff utilization has been given full consideration\nwith adjustments in case loads and reorganization of areas, and for the sake of\ncontinuity some of the reports in the following pages show activity carrying forward into the present calendar year.\nSocial welfare services and prograrnming for these services are not static.\nFor example, there is a changing situation in connection with tuberculosis, and due\nto the nature of these changes extra allowances have been authorized for members\nof families who are in receipt of social allowance when individuals show a TB.\nreaction although not diagnosed as being positive. This change was made in order\nto increase the money available to the family for extra diet needs.\nIn the area of welfare institutions\u2014namely, boarding homes giving care to\nelderly persons who need personal care but not bed care\u2014changes are taking place.\nThe type of construction of the institutions themselves is becoming more sophisticated and buildings are being contemplated, and constructed, with an increase in\nthe number of stories. As well, institutions are being brought into being which\ngive special services to persons in need of extra care but not needing care at a\nprivate-hospital level. In order to increase the service to persons who are not in\nneed of care in hospitals or other institutions, accommodation has been offered to\nsuch individuals in the Provincial Home, Kamloops, with gratifying results. This\nhome has always given an excellent service for aged men in need of accommodation.\nConcentration on the field of rehabilitation is continuing in conjunction with\nthe Health Branch of the Department of Health Services and Hospital Insurance.\nThe team approach is proving effective, and with the establishment of screening\ncommittees in the local communities it is obvious that resources are being developed\nwhich will prove of great advantage.\nIn October, 1963, the Federal Old Age Security allowance of $65 per month\nwas increased to $75 per month. In December, 1963, the Disabled Persons' Allowance, the Blind Persons' Allowance, and Old-age Assistance were increased from\n$65 per month to $75 per month.\nIn the Social Allowance category, authorization was given to make available\nan extra $10 a month to increase the rental allowance if and where necessary.\nA slight increase took place in the number of persons receiving Social Allowance,\nbut the turnover in case load continued. The movement in case load indicates\nthat many people who needed services and financial help did nevertheless subsequently return to employment and to a self-supporting status.\nAn Act Respecting Training-schools for Children, chapter 50 of the Statutes\nof 1963, assented to March 27, 1963, has been implemented.   The regulations\n j 10 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nmade pursuant to the Act were effective December 3, 1963. The Training-schools\nAct Release Board was constituted to carry out the purpose and intent of this\nlegislation, and monthly meetings have been held. The members of this Board are:\nChairman, Mr. E. R. Rickinson (Deputy Minister of Social Welfare), Mr. T. D.\nBingham (Deputy Superintendent of Child Welfare), Mr. N. A. McDiarmid (Departmental Solicitor, Department of the Attorney-General), Mr. A. Jones (Supervisor, Probation Branch, Department of the Attorney-General), and Mr. J. A.\nSadler (Director of Social Welfare).\nThe following tables outline the statistical information in connection with the\ncase loads during the year, and it will be noted that the small numerical decrease\nin the number of persons receiving aged allowances continues. However, it will\nalso be noted that there has been a rise in demand for child welfare services, and\nthis is outlined in detail in the report of the Superintendent of Child Welfare.\nTable II.\u2014Movement t\nn Case Load during Fiscal Year 1963\/64\nCafego,\nCases Opened during Year\nCases Closed\nduring Year\nNumber\nPerCen.\nNumber\nPerCen.i\nl|Ho|aicI\t\nj;|\nW*\nl\n7M\nT^^^SSlSSi\n.oi\nTotals for Province\t\n94.823\n100.0\n94,699\n100.0\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64\nTable III.\u2014Number of Cases by Category and as a Percentage of Populati\nas at March 31st for the Years 1963 and 1964\nThe Emergency Welfare Services Supervisor has continued to implement\ncommunity and Departmental staff-training programmes. The positive results of\nthis training were demonstrated in the way the staff reacted in time of emergencies,\nsuch as during flooding in various areas of the Province last year, and the worth of\nthe training programme was proved.\nThe Co-ordinator, Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Services, has concentrated his studies in the two metropolitan areas of Victoria and Vancouver.\nThe Office Consultant, during field trips, consolidated the necessary information for the evaluation of office methods and procedures within the Department.\nThe Research Consultant and her staff have carried on case-load surveys to\nprovide material vital to Departmental planning and operation.\nThe co-operation which has been given during the year by officials from other\nGovernment departments, municipalities, and private agencies has been most helpful,\nand I would like to express my appreciation on behalf of the Department of Social\nWelfare for the guidance and help which have been extended.\n REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE\nR. J. BURNHAM\nI wish to submit the report of the Assistant Director of Social Welfare for the\nfiscal year April 1, 1963, to March 31, 1964.\nIn order to keep our staff informed on recent developments in the welfare field,\nwe held three regional meetings throughout the Province this year, giving nearly\nall our social workers the opportunity to attend. Regions I and LT held their meeting in Vancouver; Regions III, IV, and VI in Penticton; and Regions V and VII\nin Terrace. The Community Chest and Councils of the Greater Vancouver area\nwere very helpful in allowing some of their experienced staff members to take part\nin these meetings, and our staff gained much from their presentations. This year we\nwere able to send six members of our staff to the School of Social Work, University\nof British Columbia, on bursaries of $ 1,400. An additional bursary of $1,000 was\nprovided a student who had just completed his Bachelor of Arts and wished to take\na year's training in social work. We anticipate increasing the number of bursaries\nfor the next university year.\nOur senior stenographers have had the advantage of meeting together in the\nvarious regions to discuss their work problems with Mrs. Mackenzie, our Office\nConsultant. These meetings are of assistance to our stenographers in helping them\ncarry out their duties in office management and routine.\nMrs. Mackenzie, as well as taking an active part in these meetings, visited a\nnumber of district offices to give first-hand advice and help to the staff. She has\nalso made further amendments to the Office Manual, while attending to her many\nother duties.\nNational welfare grants are being increased each year, and we have been able\nto put them to good effect. Some of the grants were used for staff development,\nbut the larger portion was utilized to carry out various projects throughout the\nProvince. In Fort St. John a project has been established to survey the area in\nterms of staff needs to meet the variety of social problems present in the community, and also to help plan for a number of children in care. A consultant was\nplaced in the Child Welfare Division to assist the field in maintaining and improving\nstandards of service to children and families in the Province. A social worker was\nplaced in the Surrey office to strengthen the adoption programme in a community\nwhere there appeared to be a number of potential adoption homes present. Assistance was also provided the Community Chest and Councils of Vancouver to carry\non with their area demonstration project, which involves research into the treatment\nof multi-problem families in an area where several social agencies are at work.\nThe National welfare grants programme was established to help develop and\nstrengthen welfare services in Canada in order that they will effectively meet the\nneeds and also help prevent welfare problems and dependency. Costs of staffing\nthe various projects are shared equally between the Provinces and the National\nGovernment. This year the total sum allotted for use by the Provincial and\nNational Governments was $40,000. Next year it is anticipated this sum will be\nincreased to in excess of $100,000.\nOnce again I wish to thank all staff members for their co-operation with this\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64 J 13\nPERSONNEL\nMrs. M. E. Dighton, Personnel Officer\nAlthough the position Personnel Officer was created in April, 1962, the reports\nconcerning staff continued until this year to be located under the heading \" Assistant\nDirector of Social Welfare,\" which position was formerly responsible for staff.\nPrevious reports have commented that the standards of service the Department\ngives are dependent on the quality of the people it employs\u2014their knowledge,\nunderstanding, and skills. Every effort is made to select those most capable of\nadministering the legislation for which this Department is responsible. We are\nconcerned that our social workers be the best available, and we are equally interested\nin employing high-calibre clerical staff and those who work in many capacities within\nthe institutions attached to this Department. The staff of this Department are its\nassets. It is the goal of every member of the Department to give the best possible\nservice to every individual who requires our help and thus enable him to carry on\nalone\u2014in this way to administer our very fine remedial social legislation in the\nmost advantageous manner for the benefit of the citizens who pay for it. We are\njustly proud of our staff and their untiring and devoted attention to duty.\nThe staff has grown over the years to a present total of 645, and added to this\nas of April, 1964, are another 59 positions. The processing of applications, letters\nof reference, serving on panels, health reports, salaries and classifications, evaluations, rating forms, holidays, sick leave, transfers, advancements, and terrninations\ncontribute to the volume of work. It was my privilege during the year under review\nto visit each office in Region IV and three of the offices in Region I. This was of\ngreat value as it enabled me to get to know personally for the first time some staff\nmembers whom I had not previously met, as well as talk with those who were already\nknown to me. Opportunities to meet with other staff have been provided through\nattendance at regional and supervisory conferences.\nThe following table shows the total number of staff (clerical, professional, and\ntechnical) that were employed, and their location in the Department, as of March\n31, 1964:\u2014\nTable I.\u2014Total Number of Staff as at March 31,1964\nGeneral Administration :- \u25a0   \u25a0 \u25a0        12\nSocial Assistance and Rehabilitation       \u25a0 5\nField Service '. 374\nChild Welfare Division ' ';   ' 30\nProvincial Home     35\nBrannan Lake School       62\nWillingdon School I\n^Assistance Board i \u201e 77\nTotal ! 645\nMost inquiries about numbers of staff concern the social-work positions. We\nhave therefore developed the following table, based on an examination of the\nEstimates. This table indicates the increase in and location of social workers in\nthe Department of Social Welfare from March 31, 1960, to the present date.\n BRITISH COLUMBIA\nTable II.\u2014Social-work Positions, 1960-64\nPrevious reports have not made mention of the municipal social workers in\nmunicipal and (or) amalgamated offices. Since staff in these offices work side\nby side and share in the total Provincial case load, this should be recorded, otherwise we do not have a complete picture of the average number of cases carried by\nProvincial social workers. As of March 31, 1964, the municipal social workers\nnumbered 86 plus 13 social-work assistants, making a total of 99.\nOne question has recurred at intervals, and it will be necessary to go back to\nan event which took place April 1, 1956, to clarify the matter. Up to March 31,\n1956, all social-work staff working in psychiatric-treatment institutions were part\nof the staff of this Department and were included in the total staff count as per the\nAnnual Reports.\nOn April 1, 1956, the Psychiatric Division, made up of 42 social workers, was\ntransferred to the Provincial Secretary's Department. Actually these was no difference in the field case loads as a result of the move. This Division took with it the\ncases being carried by each worker.\nThe following table varies slightly from Table II for reasons as noted.\nTable III.\u2014Social Workers, 1960-64\nMarch 31, 1960 -\nMarch 31, 1961 I\nMarch 31, 1962 ..\nMarch 31, 1963 ..\nMarch 31, 1964\n  285\nn has several causes. First, the figures shown in Table in include\nall social workers. (Table II does not include those paid from the Federal training\ngrants.) Second, a local situation can create a need for additional help. For\nexample, large numbers of unemployed persons will arrive in a particular locality\nwhen employment prospects appear probable; many will require help until work is\nfound or until movement takes place to another area, and to alleviate the situation\nextra staff is employed. Third, over the past two years a serious shortage of adoption homes has resulted in formulating a programme designed to assist in meeting\nthis great need. As a result, additional staff was placed in 1963 and 1964. Fourth,\nthe figures include staff on educational leave.\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J 15\nThe Federal training grants programme has enabled the Department to further\nincrease its social-work staff. Costs of this increase are shared 50-50 between the\nFederal and Provincial Governments. In 1963 we added, through this means, eight\npositions (of which two were clerical). The remaining six covered the appointments\nof a Research Consultant to the Research Division, a Child Welfare Consultant for\nSpecial Placements to the Child Welfare Division, a supervisor and two social\nworkers for the Fort St. John project, and a social worker for the Surrey adoption-\nhome project. These positions will continue and additional projects will be added\nas trained staff is available.\nThe bursary programme permitted us to assist seven staff members attending\nschools of social work, for a total expenditure of $9,400 in the year under review.\nThe programme has been considerably accelerated through the aid of Federal\ngrants, and training grants to members of our staff in the 1964\/65 school term will\namount to $24,000, plus another $2,000 to persons proceeding directly from the\nB.A. degree to the B.S.W. degree.\nThe following table shows the total social-work staff employed for the fiscal\nyears ended March 31, 1963, and March 31, 1964:\u2014\nTable IV.\u2014Social-work Staff as at March 31,1963 and 1964\nTable V.\u2014Staff with Degrees in Social Work\nMen\nWomen\nTota,\nf<!    \u2022 1W    V\n|\nl\n\u00bbS22X*\u00a32%\njjjguggjg^\nA\nsSHHain^Ea\nnM_\u00a3fb^sii_z:\nI\n,42\n143\nIf the reader will refer to the Annual Report of March 31, 1958, it will be\nnoted the social-work staff was made up of 40 men and 148 women. There has\nbeen a steady change-over; for example, on March 31, 1962, the ratio was 114\nmen to 142 women, and the present report, March 31, 1964, shows the ratio of\nmen to women is almost equal. The increased interest on the part of men is also\nreflected throughout enrolment at all schools of social work, and it is an interesting\nfact that the profession is no longer regarded as women's work.\nDuring the year under review there was a total of 66 social worker separations,\nand they occurred for the following reasons:\u2014\n BRITISH COLUMBIA\nTable VI.\u2014Social Worker Separations, 1963\/64\nDomestic  \t\nTo further education\t\nPersonal reasons\t\nTo accept other employment _\n111 health._\t\nMoved from area or Provii\nTransferred\t\nServices unsatisfactory\t\nTo accept municipal job ..\nTRAINING DIVISION\nDouglas W. Fowler, Supervisor\nThis has been another active year in the Training Division, with nine four-week\nclasses being conducted. These consisted of five Part I courses and four Part III\ncourses, involving a total of 86 social workers.\nSixty-four in-service trainees were appointed, and of these 15 had previous\nexperience. Ten of that group held a B.A. degree or equivalent, and four of the\nremaining five had two years' university or better.\nForty-nine workers were appointed who had no previous experience. Of these,\n34 held a B.A. degree or equivalent and six had three years' university or better.\nFifty-two persons were given Part I in-service training, two of which were\nmunicpal social workers.\nA great deal of interest in our training programme is manifested by persons\nwho wish to enter the field, and we conduct an average of 25 interviews per month\nwith prospective staff members. In February the Training Supervisor and Assistant\nTraining Supervisor interviewed 50 University of British Columbia students graduating in the spring and fall of 1964. These interviews were arranged on the campus,\nand 10 new staff members were obtained in this manner.\nThe problem of staff turnover still concerns us, but it is of interest to note that\nmany persons leaving our employ do so to obtain further training or to broaden\ntheir experience by accepting employment in other agencies. We have been\nencouraged by the additional funds being made available through Federal welfare\ngrants for staff training and the response of our staff to the opportunities provided\nto obtain professional education.\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64\nPART II.\u2014REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION\nREGION I\nMiss M. Jamieson, Regional Director\nI beg to submit the annual report for Region I for the fiscal year ended March\n31,1964.\nThere were no major changes in the geographical boundaries. The region\nincludes Vancouver Island, adjacent islands, and a northern strip of the west coast\nof the Mainland. From figures completed in the 1961 Census, there are approximately 291,000 persons within the boundaries of the region. About 4 per cent of\nthese people receive services from our Social Welfare Department.\nThe region is served by seven offices manned by 38 social workers, four district\nsupervisors, supporting clerical staff, two municipal administrators, and one Regional\nDirector.   This is an increase of two social workers, as follows:   ~\nsocial worker employed by the Municipahty of Saanich, one hal\nhandling adoption only in Victoria district office, and one full\non limited child care and adoptions case load in Courtenay a\nclerk-stenographer was added to the Courtenay district office staff.\nThere was an unusual number of staff changes during the year for a variety\nof reasons\u2014educational leave, marriage, inter-office transfers, illness, retirement,\nand, sadly, the death of two members of the social-work staff. These changes created\nmuch additional work and stress to both social worker and clerical staff, which was\nalleviated to some degree by several retired social workers coming on staff for\ntemporary periods.\nThe case load for this region on March 31, 1964, was 11,380. Table I shows\nthe ad_nistrative offices with distribution of case load by category of services and\nTable II indicates the numerical and percentage comparison of case load by major\ncategories in Region I for the fiscal years 1962\/63 and 1963\/64.\nTable I.\u2014Administrative Offices with Distribution of Case Load by Category\nof Services as at March 31,1964\nOne half-ri\nne social worker\nle social worker\nOne half-time\n I  18 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nTable II.\u2014Numerical and Percentage Comparison of Case Load by Major Categories\nin Region I for the Fiscal Years 1962\/63 and 1963\/64\nThe Alberni-West Coast flood disaster of March 28, 1964, caused substantial\nproperty damage, but miraculously there was no loss of life nor serious injury.\nThe immediate and effective co-operation of all concerned was an unforgettable\nexperience. Private citizens, municipal officials, community organizations, and\nbusiness firms gave unstintingly to the emergency welfare operation, despite their\nother heavy responsibilities. It is not easy to single out any one person or organization, but special tribute is due Mayor Bishop of Alberni, Mayor Hammer of Port\nAlberni, the Salvation Army, the Red Cross, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,\nchurch groups, public health nurses, and many others. Technical assistance was\nprovided by Civil Defence disaster plan personnel. Social workers and clerical\nstaff of the Alberni district social welfare office deserve sincere commendation for\ntheir initiative in setting up emergency welfare services speedily and efficiently; their\npositive action in this crisis is a matter of pride to themselves and the Department\nThe support extended by senior officials of the Department and regional staff was\nimmediate and appropriate.\nIn conclusion, the regional staff and I are grateful for the co-operation and\ne received from those who have assisted us in meeting our responsibilities.\nH. E. Blanchard, Regional Director\nPublic welfare in the geographic area of British Columbia known as Region II\nis administered from municipal and Provincial offices as follows:\t\nAmalgamated offices (municipal offices under the charge of municipal\nacrrninistrators): District of Burnaby, District of Coquitlam, New\nWestminster City, City and District of North Vancouver, District of\nRichmond, Vancouver City, and District of West Vancouver.\nDistrict offices (Department of Social Welfare offices under the charge\nof district supervisor, serving unorganized areas and per capita\nmunicipalities): New Westminster district office, serving unorganized areas and the municipalities of Delta, Fraser Mills, Port Coquitlam, and Port Moody; Powell River district office, serving the\nDistrict of Powell River and surrounding area, including Texada\nIsland; Vancouver district office, serving unorganized areas of University of British Columbia Endowment Lands, North Arm of Bur-\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64\nJ 19\nrard Inlet, Howe Sound, Cheakamus Valley, Sechelt Peninsula, and\nOcean Falls and adjacent coast.\na of Table I following will reveal an over-all increase in case\nload of just over 0.54 per cent as compared with 0.46 per cent for the previous year.\nOld Age Security Supplementary Social Allowance cases have decreased by 557\ncases, continuing the trend as reported last year when a decrease of 719 cases was\nindicated- Social Allowance cases show an increase but at a reduced rate, 415\nas compared with 712, partly affected by the exodus of 133 Doukhobor cases from\nRegion II during 1963\/64. As the fiscal year closed, it was planned to integrate\nthe administration of the remaining 55 Doukhobor cases with other Social Allowance cases instead of carrying them as a separate group.\nThe categorical allowances show only minor fluctuations from the previous\nyear, but Family and Child Welfare cases show a significant increase, not so much\nin the numbers alone, but the volume of work involved in this type of case. Adoption homes that have been approved for the placement of children on this basis and\nthe number of children so placed show no significant increase. However, the\nnumber of foster homes in use at March 31, 1964, had risen to 379, as compared\nwith 325 reported the previous year, and the number of children in foster homes\nincreased from 580 to 685. This increase of children in foster homes reflects two\nfactors: First, that homes desiring the adoption placement of a child seem not to\nbe so readily available as they were a few years ago, and, second, an increasing\nnumber of situations where family circumstances require the removal of a child\nor all the children of a family from parental control.\nIn an attempt to explore the posibility of increased adoption placements, a\nspecial project in this regard was initiated in July, 1963, and is continuing. A well-\nqualified social worker was assigned to the project to cover areas in Region II, where\nit was believed additional and directed help would produce results. At fiscal-year\nend the project shows promise of producing the anticipated results.\nTable II shows the various categories of cases as distributed among the several\nadministrative offices in the region.\nM\n,962\/63\n,963\/64\nNumber\nPercent\nNumber\nPercent\nR\u201en,il    <S\u201eryir\u00bb\n12'l88\nl\n12,638\n09\n}        7-\nOld Age Security S\nWlementery Social All\nwance_\n40.0\n33,306\n100.0\n33,486\n J 20 BRITISH COLUMBIA    '\nTable II.\u2014Case Load by Major Categories in the District Admit\nof Region II as at March 31, 1964\nMM % lib   ill   f I   1?    I     lb    If   si   \u00bb**\n | \u00bb 13 jsfeg j g^s 11> I ga 1 a 1 >s | >s | g=> [\nEmergency Shelters\nDuring the winter of 1963\/64 the shelter facilities operated by the private\nagencies in Vancouver were sufficient to take care of those single transient men who\nrequired this service, so there was no need to supplement on an emergency basis.\nIn New Westminster, where the shelter functions as a temporary home to permit\ntime to process the applications of single transient men, a very successful operation\nwas organized and supervised on our behalf by the Salvation Army. This year the\nshelter was operated for seven months, being closed from June to October, inclusive,\nduring which period the single transient male problem is lessened for this office.\nDuring the seven months' operation, 957 men were served, making an average of\n137 per month with an average stay of three days. An average of 921 meals was\nserved per month. Total cost of the operation, which was borne by the Department\nof Social Welfare, was $5,523.37, for an average of approximately $1.85 per man\nper day.\nUnemployed Single Men, Vancouver City\nThe number of unemployed single men on Social Allowance in the City of\nVancouver continues to present a real problem for the city social service department\nand is of deep concern to the Department of Social Welfare.\nA special problem with a portion of this classification of Social Allowance\nrecipient, usually considered to be a \" transient\" group, results from drunkenness,\nprobably only partially due to idleness. In those cases where men have been known\nto use their assistance unwisely, the Vancouver social service department has arranged for the administration of their allowances through some reliable agency or\nperson. An interesting experiment in this regard was established about November\n1963, whereby arrangements were made with the manager of a downtown hotel\nto undertake the administration of any such cases referred to him. The average\nnumber of such cases in the hotel during any month would be about 75. The men\nhave their lodging in the hotel, meals are arranged for in nearby restaurants, and\nminor comforts are arranged. This is reported to be a successful programme, and\ngreat credit is due to the hotel manager.\n OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64\nThe Cathkin Group-living Home for boys, opened late in the previous fiscal\nyear, has now been in operation for 15 months. Financed by the Department of\nSocial Welfare, it is under the supervision of the Child Welfare Division through\nthe Burnaby social service department, with services available from the nearby\nMental Health Clinic. The home will accommodate six boys. By the beginning of\nthe year five boys were in residence. During the year eight boys received treatment,\nand five were in the home at March 31, 1964.\nThis has been a year of testing out methods, adjusting, and learning from successes and failures. Experience with this home confirms belief that such resources\ncan be helpful and encourages hope that other such homes can be established in\nRegion II to serve both girls and boys at the younger age-level as well as those in\nthe adolescent years.\nThe Department of Social Welfare has enjoyed the co-operation of the private\nagencies and the municipal welfare departments, and I take this opportunity to\nthank them for their help.\nThis is an opportunity for me to thank the social workers and supervisors of\nthe Department who have served in Region II during this fiscal year. Credit must\nbe given to the clerical staff in all offices. Their constant support is much appreciated. I desire also to thank senior administration on behalf of staff and myself for\ntheir encouragement and support.\nR. I. Stringer, Regional Director\nI beg to submit the following report on the activities of the Department of\nSocial Welfare in Region III for the fiscal year 1963\/64.\nThere have been no changes in the regional boundaries. The region extends\nfrom the International Boundary to Wells Gray Park and from Revelstoke and\ndistrict to Bralorne.\nSocial welfare services are provided from seven Provincial offices\u2014one each\nlocated at Lillooet, Kamloops, Salmon Arm, Vernon, Kelowna, Oliver, and Pen-\nticton. Services in the MunicipaUties of Armstrong, Enderby, North Kamloops,\nRevelstoke, Salmon Arm, and Summerland are provided by the nearest Provincial\ndistrict office, and paid for by the municipality concerned on a per capita basis.\nUnder the provisions of the Municipal Act certain organized areas are exempt from\nproviding social welfare services. There are 14 such district municipalities and\nvillages in Region Hi, and the necessary services are provided in them as if they\nwere actually unorganized territory.\nThe economy continued to improve, the most apparent growth being in the\ntourist industry and construction necessitated by the need for additional facilities.\nPopulation continued to increase at a steady rate. As a result, there were\nadditional social welfare services required, resulting in an over-all increase in case\nload, even though the financial assistance services actually decreased.\nFrom the following table it can be noted that the Social Allowance case load\ndecreased from 34.2 to 32.9 per cent of the total case load, an actual decrease from\n3,229 to 3,146 cases. A total of $617,067.13 was granted to employable persons,\na decrease of 25 per cent over the preceding year. There was also a decrease of\n76 in supplementary assistance to those in receipt of Old Age Social Security. There\nwas, however, an increase in the total case load from 9,453 to 9,560, an increase\n j 22 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nof approximately 1 per cent. In addition to this increase in the case load, there were\n28,969 cases opened and closed, approximately 4 per cent more than the year before.\nMost of the increase was in the Family and Children's Services, which altogether\naccounted for an additional 210 cases.\nChild-in-care case load alone rose from 681 to 709, an increase of 28 children-\nin-care or 4 per cent during the year. On the positive side, however, this increase\nwas less than the 19-per-cent increase of the previous fiscal year.\nThree additional social workers were assigned to the region specifically to work\nin the adoption and child-in-care categories. This \" blitzkrieg \" method was fairly\nsuccessful, but because of the necessity of devoting equal energies to the more\npreventive services and because of changes in staff, it soon became apparent that the\nactivities of this staff were too restricted. Plans were therefore made to broaden\ntheir sphere of usefulness. We were also pleased to receive notification that the\nGovernment had authorized an increase of lO'\/i clerical and professional staff for\nthis region beginning with the new fiscal year. Careful studies were immediately\ncommenced to ensure that this additional manpower would be effectively utilized.\nThe social workers continued to concentrate on the Social Allowance case load,\nand their efforts were partly responsible for the reduction in that category of service,\nparticularly in the employable group. The more difficult rehabilitation cases were\nreferred to the various rehabilitation committees with marked success, particularly\nin the Vernon and Kamloops areas, where continuity of staff and the effective\nco-operation of the National Employment Service's Special Placement Officer resulted in a good level of service.\nA study was made of the effectiveness of services to families who had been\ndeserted by the bread-winner. It was found that whereas family desertion does not\noccur as frequently as is sometimes thought, a desertion that is not resolved promptly\ntends to become a long-term case. It was also found that one of the barriers to\nprompt action was locating the missing husband. Therefore, at present, efforts are\nbeing made to develop more effective location and follow-up methods.\nIn closing, may I again congratulate both the municipal and Provincial staffs\nfor the effective, dedicated work that they have performed.\nOffices\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64 J 23\nTable II.\u2014Numerical and Percentage Comparison of Case Load by Major Categories\nin Region III for the Fiscal Years 1962\/63 and 1963\/64\nWalter J. Camozzi, Regional Director\nThe Rockies, the 49th parallel from Bridesville to meet them, and a line drawn\nfrom Bridesville along the eastern margin of the Arrow Lakes north of Field form\nthe triangle shape of Region IV, which remains unchanged.\nThere have been no administrative changes. It was served by a Regional\nDirector at Nelson, three district offices supervised by district supervisors at\nNelson, Cranbrook, and Trail, with sub-offices at New Denver, Fernie, Creston,\nGolden, Castlegar, and Grand Forks respectively, which are served by 23 social\nworkers and 14 clerical staff.\nA programme to achieve first-rate office accommodation was completed in the\nyear, interestingly enough at a considerable net saving in rent to the Department.\nThe little nursing home \" Pavilion \" is still in operation at New Denver, at its\ncapacity of 14 to 15 patients, providing good care under the matron, Miss Gladys\nReynolds, R.N. Local people are actively interested in the patients and supply\ncompany and other extras. We are particularly thankful to Mr. D. Westaway,\nWS^ngineer of ^ Highways Department, for more than ordinary helpfulness\nin keeping the place in good shape. Mr. E. Owens, the Nelson Fire Chief, gave a\ndemonstration at our request on use of essential equipment. This later paid off\nwhen an aide, Mrs. V. Detta, making Use of this knowledge, with the matron, put\nout a fire accidentally started by a patient.\nThere has been no dramatic industrial development in the region. The Consolidated Mining & Smelting Company expanded its output tremendously at\nKimberley, in iron and fertilizer production particularly, but with a disproportionate\nincrease in staff due to increased efficiency of the plant. There is planning, however,\nfor further development, which may mean the hiring of quite a few more men.\nWinter works were used by Castlegar and Montrose, but bad weather reduced\nthe work period to a month or less for our clients.\nThe vocational school was completed in Nelson, and the area is proud of\nhaving it. Notre Dame College became a university this year with degree-granting\npowers. These two educational units do not add a great deal to the local economy,\nbut may indicate that Nelson is becoming less of a commercial centre and more and\nmore a residential and vocational one. Some of our wards were enrolled at the\nvocational school, and we expect to use it more.\nThe Kinsmen completed their plans for a low-rental \" villa,\" and the Honourable Minister, Mr. Black, was invited to turn the first sod. We are glad of this\nadded facility in Nelson for older people.\n j 24 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nCommunity organization work was developed more in the Trail district in\nchild welfare work. The local Council of Women undertook to publicize the need\nfor foster homes, to explain the responsibilities of foster-parenthood, to visit prospective foster-parents, and to forward cards describing 33 possible foster homes.\nFive already have been used for seven children. There is good commumty work\nand, incidentally, good staff development.\nOne worker was able to attend the Child League Conference in Vancouver.\nAn inter-regional conference with Regions VI and IE was particularly successful\nand hugely enjoyed, and is a particular credit to the staff of Region HI, who\norganized it so well.\nIt is impossible to write an annual report in Region IV without mention of the\nDoukhobors, who continue to involve a great deal of time and who show the least\nresponse to our efforts. Although ostensibly large numbers went to the coast, many\ntravelled back and forth, as did their files. Out of 151 files transferred to Vancouver,\n41 were back in Nelson by April.\nThere has been increased interest in civil defence. Several staff members\nundertook communication, personal services, and feeding courses, some on their\nown time, and quite a few of the staff attended a Friday and Saturday exercise in\nJanuary. A mobile feeding unit was delivered to our administration, and it has\nbeen delivered to certain towns for publicity, and people know it is available in case\nof emergency.\nThe case-load summary totals disclose last year to be the lowest in costs and\nnumbers of the last six and of the steady decrease of the last three. This could be\nattributed to tighter controls and greater consciousness of staff in more accurate\ncounting, and I think some credit should be given here. In a review of the last 12\nyears, however, it is plainly seen that numbers and costs have alternated in three-year\nphases to establish a trend line which is constantly rising. This constant rise reflects\ngeneral conditions, which may be higher in other areas but no less serious.\nAgain it is a pleasure to credit every co-worker in each office for their particular responsiveness in the last year. Special thanks are due to the Health Unit\nDirectors, the Government Agents, and the Highways and Probation Departments\nfor their help to us. My thanks, too, to municipal and private organizations for\ntheir particular knowledge of local conditions and helpfulness, and I must register\nmy sincere appreciation of the interest and. concern of the Honourable Minister,\nsenior administration, and the divisions in helping us serve the people of this region.\nTable I.-\ne Offices\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J 25\nTable II.\u2014Numerical and Percentage Comparison of Case Load by Major Categories in Region IV as at March 31st for the Fiscal Years 1962\/63 and 1963\/64\n.962\/63\n.963\/64\nNumber\nPercent\nNumber\nPercent\nF mil  Se   ice\nl\nf|\n\"l\n24\n|\nQia\u00abge^r!t^Sjpplemeritary\nSdtfaf'AIIowanceL\n\u00b0\n5,724\n.00.0\n5,461\nV. H. Dallamore, Regional Director\nI beg to submit the following report of the activities of the Department of Social\nWelfare in Region V for the fiscal year 1963\/64.\nBoundaries of the region remained unchanged and so did the boundaries\nbetween districts.\nThe fiscal year began with increasing pressures, and by June of 1963 the total\ncase load for the region had reached a record high of 7,147. This pattern continued\nthroughout the summer months, and only by fall did some easing of pressures occur.\nThe decrease continued erratically so that by the end of the fiscal year, March 31st,\nthe total case load had reached a low for the fiscal year of 6,197.\nThis year-end case load was less than that at the beginning by 377, a decrease\nof 5.7 per cent. This was the first time a decrease in case load had occurred in the\nregion.\nTable I below shows the case loads by general categories for this fiscal year and\nfor the preceding one.\nTable I.\u2014Numerical and Percentage Comparison of Case Load by Major Categories\nin Region V as at March 31 for the Fiscal Years 1962\/63 and 1963\/64\n<\"\n1,62\/63\n1963\/64\nNumber\nPercent\nNumber\nPercent\nFomily S\u00ab-vl~\n.l\na\n3?\noS.\"es't^rance\t\n0.8\n^^1^^^^\u2122\u00b0\u2122\"-=^=^\n\"1\nHealth and Institutional\t\n0.9\n6,574\n100.0\n6,197\nFrom the above it may be seen that the Social Allowance case load decreased\nby 439.\nMost significant, however, was an increase in Child Welfare case load, which\namounted to 87 cases.   This increase of 7.0 per cent was at least less than the\n j 26 BRITISH COLUMBIA \u25a0-\u25a0\nincrease in the preceding fiscal year, when it reached 16.0 per cent. However, the\nChild Welfare case load now comprises 21.4 per cent of the total case load in Region\nV and is significantly different to the Provincial Child Welfare case load,, which\namounts to -11.4 per cent of the total case load.\nSocial Allowance continues as the largest proportion of case load, being 50.5\nper cent of it.   Last year it amounted to 54.2 per cent of the total case load.\nOld-age Assistance, Old Age Security Supplementary Social Allowance, and\nBlind Persons' Allowances make up 22.1 per cent of the regional case load,\ncompared with 46.2 per cent of the Provincial case load. They remain a relatively\nconsistent portion of the case load in Region V in spite of the fact that a rapidly\nincreasing population in this northern area would obviously be the result of the influx\nof relatively young persons.\nThe following Table II shows the case load by major categories in the various\ndistrict offices of the region.\nTable II.\u2014Case Load by Major Categories in the District Administrative Office\nRegion Vasat March 31,1964\nof\nCa.e8ory\nw\nJUL\n<_f\u00b0\nsgs\nOue^nel\nvssr\nwi_r\nTota.\nFamily Service\t\n\"2\n\u00bb\n424\nJM\nl\nl\n1\n237\n__\u00a3?S\n\u00a7=_\n*\n1,351    |     790\n1,226\n893\n817           499   j      621\nIt may be seen from this table that the two Cariboo offices of Quesnel and\nWilliams Lake had a total of 1,438 cases at the end of the fiscal year. This was an\nincrease of 45 over the case load one year previously. This increase of 3.2 per cent\nwas unique, as this is the only area in which the over-all increase in case load\noccurred in the region.\nThe North Central Interior offices of Prince George Main, Prince George Sub,\nand Vanderhoof had a total of 2,618 cases for March 31,1964. This was a decrease\nof 239 cases or 8.4 per cent.\nThe Peace River offices of Dawson Creek and Fort St. John had a case load\ntotalling 2,141 at the end of the year. That was a decrease of 183 cases or 7.9 per\ncent during the year.\nOn September 15, 1963, a hostel for single transient men was opened in\nDawson Creek. This resource, offering bed and meals for 44 men, proved most\nbeneficial in working with this group of clientele. If served to reduce pressure on\ninterviewing staff in the office as the individual's applications could be handled more\nsimply and quickly at a specified time when a social worker took applications at the\nhostel itself. Also it facilitated getting men out to employment, as they were much\nmore readily accessible than when they were accommodated in various parts of town.\nA hostel capable of accommodating 45 single transient men was opened in\nPrince George on February 17, 1964. Experience in Dawson Creek was repeated\nin Prince George, and more effective work with these men became possible. It also\nafforded opportunity for social-work staff to apply more time to work with other\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64\ncases, since the administrative problems in handling single\ndrastically reduced.\nPlanning for the establishment of receiving homes in Dawson Creek and Fort\nSt. John and a group-living home for boys in Vanderhoof was initiated, and it is\nexpected that these needed child welfare resources will be in operation in the early\npart of the next fiscal year.\nA district supervisor was appointed for Fort St. John and an additional social\nworker there as well as one additional worker in Dawson Creek. A half-time social\nworker was added to the staff of the Prince George main office to work on adoption\ncases. Thus in September of 1963 the social-work staff was increased by 2Vi and\nthe supervisory staff by one.\nIn January one additional social worker was appointed to the Prince George\nsub-office, and in February a half-time position was changed to full time.\nThe social-work staff on March 31, 1964, numbered 27, an increase of four\nin the social-work staff during the year.\nThe stenographic staff was increased by 2Vi during the year, one being\nappointed in Fort St. John to work on the Federal grants project there, a half-time\nstenographer being appointed to the Prince George main office to work on the adoption project in that office, and a stenographer added to the Prince George sub-office.\nFurther staff increases are expected early in the new fiscal year.\nIn closing I wish to express my thanks to the many organizations and municipal\npersonnel in the region who have helped us with our work so generously. I also wish\nto thank all members of staff, who have carried on so well and at the same time laid\nthe groundwork for the extension of resources and improved welfare services for the\nREGION VI\nA. E. Bingham, Regional Director\nThe annual report is a pause, or time taken at the end of a year's hard work,\nto asses what was accomplished, and to look at programme and methods before the\nnext year begins. This is the annual report of a field unit or region of the Department of Social Welfare. It is one of seven regions that serve the people of the\nProvince.\nRegion VI, or the Fraser Valley region, extends from Pitt Meadows, Surrey,\nand White Rock in the west, along each side of the Fraser River to Manning Park\nin the east, and near Lytton in the north. The United States Border is the southern\nboundary. The population in the region increased by approximately 9,000 during\nthe year. The main increase took place in the western section of the region, where\nthere is a growing suburban population. Most of the 192,000 people in the region\nlive in municipalities.\nThe function of the region is to serve the people resident in it, to the maximum,\nwith the services of the Department of Social Welfare. In the Fraser Valley these\nservices are available at the local level through five Provincial offices and one\nmunicipal social welfare department.\ns'MirlThetProvincial offices are located at Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Haney, Laneley,\nand White Rock.\nIn Surrey the responsibility for the aclrninistration of social welfare services\nrests with the municipality. (This is provided for in the Social AskstMce Act and\nregulations.) A casework supervisor and one-half of the Surrey social-work staff\nare provided by the Provincial Government.\n j 28 BRITISH COLUMBIA'! W\nThe five Provincial offices and one municipal office of this region, at March\n31, 1964, were staffed with 37 social workers, 4 district supervisors, 1 assistant\nsupervisor, 1 municipal administrator, and 1 Regional Administrator.\nSocial welfare is, by nature, service to people. \" Service \" in public welfare\nmeans financial assistance, medical care, direct counselling, guidance, generally\nany activity of the caseworker which assists a family or individual.\nDuring the year we provided social services to families, children, the aged,\nand handicapped adults. These services flowed in three main channels\u2014Old-age\nAssistance Board, Social Assistance and Rehabilitation, and Family and Child\nWelfare.\nAt the field level, Old-age Assistance serves persons aged 65 and over and\ndisabled adults who require financial' assistance to meet costs of maintenance. This\ngroup requires a wide range of services. Each of the offices of the region has a\nspecialist who works with this age-group. The emphasis is to promote self-care\u2014\nthe personal ability to meet the demands of everyday life. When self-care is no\nlonger possible, housekeeper or homemaker service may be provided. Chronic\nillness often results in boarding-home or private-hospital placement. Someone has\ncleverly said that old people have little use for \" tea, sympathy, and c\nThey prefer the approach that gives them a sense of dignity of self-worth.\nUnder the Social Assistance and Rehabilitation Division, social a:\nprovided in the region on a uniform basis, as necessary, to eligible recipients. Provincial funds were used in conjunction with municipal and Federal matching funds.\nTable I shows that there was no appreciable increase in the number of social assistance cases over the report of one year ago (increase of only 17 cases, with a\nregional population increase of approximately 9,000).\nOur Social Assistance Act enables us to administer social assistance in a manner\nwhich encourages and aids recipients to maintain and develop their ability toward\nself-care and self-support.\nCaseworkers are responsible for the direct contact with families and individuals\nreceiving financial assistance. This requires social casework skill and judgment.\nEveryone who is eligible for assistance has at least one major problem in addition\nto financial need. Within policy, we gave help when and where it was needed.\nOur approach was to try to make each contact with a recipient or applicant as constructive an experience as possible\u2014not harrassment or humiliation.\nThere is an increasing focus on rehabilitation for social assistance recipients.\nIn Chilliwack a local rehabilitation committee is in operation.\nWe co-operated with the Provincial Mental Hospital in a programme of placement of improved patients in boarding-homes. As at March 31, 1964, there were\n154 of these patients placed in the region plus seven adult retardates from The\nWoodlands School.\nIn the past year the focus in Family and Child Welfare services was one of\nhelping parents provide more adequate care for their children, if that was at all\npossible. This focus reflects two aspects in our thinking about parents, unmarried\nmothers, and children. First, it represents an awareness that behaviour of parents\n(including unmarried mothers) is often a product of their own problems, and,\nsecond, it reflects.greater recognition of the importance and meaning of the child's\nown home and family to him.\nAfter doing all in our power to strengthen families so that children need not\nbe removed from their homes, 338 children were admitted into care during the year.\nThis is an increase of 74 over the previous year. Two-hundred and forty-five of\nthese were apprehended under the Protection of Children Act.   The child-in-care\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64 J 29\ncase load increased by 129 during the year. At March 31, 1964, there were 715\nchildren receiving substitute care in foster homes.\nThe need for adoption homes has become a most pressing one, also the need\nfor foster homes for adolescent children.\nPublic welfare is an ever-changing field. Staff must be informed on programme\nchanges as well as new methods, as they are developed through research and experimentation. In the fall of the year under review, many of the staff of this region\njoined in an inter-regional conference held at Penticton.\nAs one looks through the many activities and reports of the past year, the word\n\" project\" stands out.\nProjects add knowledge, improve skills, and provide an opportunity to keep\nabreast of new ideas.\nIn June an adoption project was initiated in Surrey. It is unique, for it is a\nco-operative venture of Federal, Provincial, and municipal governments. The purpose is to study a backlog of pending adoption homes, assess adoption procedures,\nand consider recruitment methods.\nAn interdepartmental project was started in the region in conjunction with\nMental Health Services. It is an experiment in foster-home placement of some\nof the children in The Woodlands School or those who are certified for admission.\nA maximum number of 30 children will be involved.\nA Child Welfare project was commenced in Chilliwack. A survey was made\nof all children in care in the Chilliwack area, and a case load of approximately 60\nchildren was selected for the project worker. This case load consisted of children\navailable for aloption and children who might be returned to natural parents if the\nparents are strengthened in their ability to carry the parental role.\nAt the end of the year under review, these projects were at various stages of\ndevelopment.\nThrough the year a competent, imaginative, and devoted staff of social workers\nand stenographers, Provincial employees and municipal employees, combined their\nideas, skills, and time with hard work to provide public welfare services to those\nwho needed them.\n3a\n.962\/63\n1963\/64\nNumber\nPerCeat\nNumber\nPercent\nsssysE\n1221\n22\nI\n19\nI\nI\n&&!S_&\nance\t\nl'ra>\n140\n11,5.4\n11,629\n BRITISH COLUMBIA\nTable II.\u2014Case Load by Major Categories as at March 31, 1964\nREGION Vn\nW. H. Crossley, Regional Director\nThe area covered by the region remained the same this year. The region\nstretches from the village of Endako on the east to the Queen Charlotte Islands on\nthe west and from Milbanke Sound on the south to the Alaska Border on the north.\nThere are two population facts of interest. Terrace, for the second year in a row,\nwas the second fastest-growing municipality in the Province, reaching an estimated\n8.500 in the immediate area this year. Noteworthy also is the fact that the population on the Indian reserves in the region is increasing quickly with a birth-rate\nindex 2V4 times the Provincial average. As this situation has pertained for the\nlast few years, it now means a high percentage of children reaching their teen-age\nyears resident on reservations. This presents a growing problem since their adjustment to mixed society and their entry into the economic stream is problematic.\nThe economic conditions varied from place to place this year. In thftSrrdthersV\nBurns lake area, the lumbering was.slow to start in the spring due to inclement\nweather but became highly active until snow conditions partially closed it down in\nthe early winter. In Terrace, activity both in forestry and building remained high\nall year, leading to a heavy influx of transients in the spring and early summer,\nmost of whom found work after temporary help was given. In Prince Rupert the\neconomy was affected by the fishing strike, which also caused extra work for\nseveral months for the staff there. At the year's end, projected pulp-mill developments in the region led to an aura of prosperity and activity, resulting in the arrival\nof some transient unemployed.\n\u2022 a- V^S yea^ WaS again notable for the participation of community groups and\nindividual citizens in providing resources jointly with the Department to serve\nchildren better. In April, 1963, the Van der Sander Subsidized Receiving Home\nfor Infants in Prince Rupert was approved. This privately sponsored home has\nbeen a valuable resource this year. In January the receiving home committee of\nthe Friendship House Association in Prince Rupert called tenders for the construction of a $30,000 receiving home for eight children, ages 2 to 14. In Terrace, the\ncnristian Welfare Council undertook a successful community canvass for monev to\nstart a fund for a $29,000 receiving home to be built on 10 acres of donated land.\nUnfortunately the Gardiner Group Home for Boys in Smithers closed temporarily\nin August, due to Mr. Gardiner becoming ill. This had proven to be a valuable\nresource for teen-age boys unable to use ordinary foster homes. This sharing of\nour responsibihty with the community for the well-being of children has been an\nencouraging experience.\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64 I 31\nThe operation, after one year's experience, of the Friendship House hostel for\ntransient single men, also run by the Friendship House Association in Prince Rupert,\nmentioned in last year's report, has heen most successful, with a large number of\nmen being found work and being rehabilitated. We reimburse the association a\ndaily rate for each man lodged who is eligible for assistance from our Department.\nThere is no doubt that this is the best way we have found to help this hard-to-reach\ngroup.\nM _e staff-deyelopment programme was continued successfully this year, with a\nseries of local staff meetings in Terrace and Prince Rupert under the leadership of\nMr. A. J. WriptTdTstrict supervisor. We were also fortunate in having Mr. D.\nFowler, training supervisor, present an institute for all regional social-work staff in\nMay. The topifc-was\u25a0\" Philosophy and Practice in Public Assistance.\" Mr. T. D.\nBingham, Deputy Superintendent of Child Welfare, visited each office in the region\nin July, leading an informative series of meetings. In October the professional\nstaff of Region JV joined us in a two-day meeting with speakers from Vancouver.\nMr. Dick Nan, of the Community Chest and Council, and Mr.. E. L. Coughlin,\nmunicipal a_inistrator, and Mr. R. Burnham spoke on \" Community Organization \" and \" Issues in Public Assistance \" respectively. Whilst meetings of this\nnature are expensive, they are invaluable as.a rneans.Qfjnaintaining standards and\nimproving total staff performance. This last year saw a very close working relationship established with the Department of Indian Affairs personnel in administering\nthe joint agreement pertaining to assistance and health services to native people\nwhich was reached in the fall of 1962 and which was put into effect in January,\n$9jSy.' Many joint meetings of a local nature were held in this connection.\nThe heightened interest this fall in public welfare brought forth many requests\nfor speakers. Public relations, always vital to our programme, increased with a\ntotal of three television, appearances and at least 12 talks to various groups made by\nstaff members. The community image of the Social Welfare Department has a\ndirect bearing on the success of our programme, so that this work is important.\nNovember saw the completion of the two-year Indian project in Prince Rupert,\na project under the aegis of the joint Federal-Provincial Welfare Ctommittee on\nIndians. \\ This one-worker project involved research, community development, and\nintensive casework with a small case load -of-Indians living in an urban area. The\nproject was a success, with findings which resulted in specific recommendations to\nboth the Federal Department of Indian Affairs and our senior administration made\nby the Joint Committee. In Smithers the Indian project, staffed by Mr. J. Gibson,\nreached the end of a highly successful first year. As the project continues, the insight\ngained into the social process on the three reserves in the project area will deepen\nour ability to be of help to Indian people living on reserves. As a result of the work\ndone, the first receiving home on. a reserve with Indian foster-parents in British\nColumbia was opened in January on Hagwilget Reserve near Hazelton. The project,\nin one year, resulted in less children being admitted to care in the project area as\na result of neglect.\nTable I following indicates the case-load make-up in each office. The number\nof pension category cases in all offices is a small part of the total compared with\nany similar offices in the south. This means that the major part of the case loads\nare in the categories requiring the most intensive casework services. When this\ntotal is compared with Table I in last year's Annual Report on page 31, significant\nfacts emerge. The Burns Lake case load dropped 40 cases, largely the result of\na transfer of 28 cases to Smithers and the closing of seven Family Service cases.\nThis office had been under pressure, with the case load heavy in intensive services.\n j 32 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nThe Prince Rupert case load dropped, as a result of sufficient suitable staff, another\n66 cases a drop of 159 cases in two years. It is significant that a major decrease\ntook place in Social Allowance (33), and a minor decrease in Child Welfare (14).\nThe Old Age Security Supplementary Social Allowance decrease is unusually large\nin one year for a usually constant category. The number of children coming into\ncare was exceeded by the number discharged for the second year.\nTable I.\u2014Case Load by Major Categories in the District Administrative Offices\nof Region VII for the Year 1963\/64 as at March 31,1964\nTerrace office was extremely busy, showing an increase of 63 cases. Child\nWelfare increased 65 cases. This reflects the staff difficulties in mamtaining preventive services due to added cases and staff changes. Smithers office also experienced\nan increase of 119 cases. The major increases were Social Allowance (74), Child\nWelfare (23), Family Service (13), and Old Age Security Supplementary Social\nAllowance (23).\nTable II.\u2014Case Load by Major Categories in Region VII as a\nfor the Fiscal Years 1962\/63 and 1963\/64\nMarch 31st\n1962\/63\n.963\/64\nCtegorr\nNumber | PerCen,\nNumber | P\u00abC\u00abU\ns|PIa^______=\n\u00a7\nl\nTOtalS :^~_\u2014;.r-'K\\\\ 'ln>- ov^\u00abara-\n2,379     |      1O0.O     |      2,455\n100.0\nThis table gives some information on a regional basis. The percentage make-up\nof the case load shows significant change in that extensive service categories are up,\nsuch as Social Allowance and Child Welfare, and light service categories are down,\nfor example, Old Age Security Supplementary Social Allowance and Old-age Assistance. The increase of 72 Child Welfare cases is unhappy because, for the most\npart, it indicates a growing number of children in foster homes. The increase in\nSocial Allowance was the result of changing economic conditions.\nThis year has seen increase in interest in developing much-needed resources for\nsenior citizens. There are groups in Prince Rupert, Smithers, and Burns Lake\nmoving toward building low-rent housing projects.   In Terrace a group is amassing\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J 33t\nfunds to build a 15- or 20-bed boarding home, and in Hazelton there is an interest in\nexploring the development of a small private hospital or nursing home.\nIn closing may I thank the staff for their constancy in serving our clients. We\nhave received grand co-operation from municipalities, school authorities, Indian\nAffairs, Public Health, and many community groups and organizations as well as\nindividuals.\n BRITISH COLUMBIA\nPART III.\u2014DIVISIONS\nSOCIAL ASSISTANCE AND REHABILITATION DIVISION\nR. J. Burnham, Assistant Director of Social Welfare\nSOCIAL ALLOWANCES SECTION\nThe social assistance programme has three prime objectives. The first is to\nrelieve want and to enable a minimum standard of living for persons who are unable\nto provide for themselves because of health, lack of a bread-winner, or unemployment. The second is to bring about a return to self-dependence or to a higher level\nof self-care. The third is to reduce or prevent the many serious social effects that\naccompany economic deprivation.\nDuring the fiscal year, applications for assistance and reviews of eligibility of\nnecessity absorbed the preponderance of staff t\nailable for social\nThere was a substantial increase in work load, with 63,747 applications and\nreapplications made for assistance. This was a rise of 7.3 per cent over the preceding year, although in contrast the number of recipients during March, 1964, was\nbarely increased over the number of recipients for March, 1963 (see Table JJI).\nThe over-all cost of social assistance was up 6.6 per cent (see Table IV).\nThis increase is partly accounted for by a rise in the cost of medical services. There\nwas also increased emphasis on the meeting of special need, including an additional\nprovision of up to $10 per month extra allowance for families faced with excessive\nrental costs.\nLarge numbers of transient single men continued to move about the Province,\nand this presented a particularly difficult administrative problem in some areas.\nThe use of hostels was undertaken in Dawson Creek and Prince George on a trial\nbasis, and this proved markedly successful in providing both a measure of control\nand a constructive help by enabling numbers of these men to become settled and\nemployed.\nAlthough the public conception is often one of considerable abuse of public\nassistance, in reality there have been few instances of fraud, and for the most part\nthese have been to single recipients.\nMf\nDependents\nb3&.\nTotal\nCasein\nA   ril   1061\nIIS\n|6\nII\n1!\n28 180\nW^hl^lOCT\t\n25658\nS\u00a3T^'?\u00a3?\t\n27,956\nmS?964_Z_:\nwm\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J\nTable II.\u2014Comparative Figures of Cases Opened and Closed\nMarch, 1962 4,422       4,928\nMarch, 1963 , g i 4,446       4,673\nMarch, 1964 ! 4,796        5,318\nTable III.\u2014Comparative Totals by Region and Unorganized and Organized Territory of Recipients and Dependents in March, 1964,1963, and 1962\n jgS \/      BRITISH COLUMBIA   \"\nTable III\u2014Comparative Totals by Region and Unorganized and Organized Territory, of Recipients and Dependents in March, 1964,1963, and 1962\u2014Continued\nPROVINCIAL MUNICIPAL\n\"S&fe1\nwar\n*Wr\nBasic Social Allowances\n$25 365 840\n91\n2<*$?5\n$25 756 670 00\nR*to^Z7r\u2122\u2122^mm^^?^*\"\u00a3-\nEmergency payments, such as where a family may lose its home\n16,860.76\ntt\"ww!tSSSt^SSi, nursing-, arm private-home\n^\n\u00bb\n6|\nHosmtal_^0ot,sS_St_M_f \"^ ^^\t\n*\n\u00a3\u00ab, municipal \u201eare af<ZT^m(\u00a3^\u00a3______\n*^5s7^0S\n71\n^osilmlo\n$29,479,518\n99\n4 123'807\n86\n' 20\/766.83\n**aSS\ndo\nM^S^\u00b0\u00b0^\u00b05^0n of New Denver Pavmon-\t\n$29,185,870.61\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J 37\nFor the fiscal yeati-1963\/64 the Province received from the Federal Govern-\nUnemployment Assistance Agreement __ $13,935,954.75\nSundry 85  '\u25a0  35.16\nREHABILITATION\nRehabilitation has two major aspects as it relates to social assistance services.\nCounselling, referrals for training, and general encouragment toward self-help\nare provided where appropriate to assist employable persons back to employment.\nThe need for this kind of service has greatly expanded because of rapidly changing\nemployment needs that have displaced large numbers of unskilled persons and\nforced emphasis on academic upgrading and vocational training. Thousands of\nsocial assistance recipients received counselling services, and approximately 345\nable-bodied recipients and 20 disabled recipients undertook training during the\nfiscal year.\nMore intensive professional services, including diagnosis of social problems\nand skilled help in their resolution, are provided in selected instances. Because\nthis is a more time-consuming service, it is considered that priority for this service\nshould go to young families and to persons who can be more readily helped. In\norder to facilitate this kind of service and to make more effective use of professional\npersonnel, it is proposed to divide staff services into two streams for the social assistance programme: one would concentrate on efficient administration of assistance\nand on counselling, referrals for retraining, and academic upgrading, together with\nrelated helping services; the other would concentrate on assessment and treatment\nservices to the extent that availability of qualified staff time permitted. This programme intially will involve limited application in one or two offices to test out its\neffectiveness prior to putting it into more general use.\nThe number of potentially employable persons who receive assistance primarily\nfor reasons of physical disablement is limited. More commonly such public dependency is related to social factors, the ultimate resolution of which is likely to be\ndependent on provision of highly skilled casework services.\nIn some instances the problem is simply one of adequate opportunities or\nfacilities being available for medical treatment, training, or employment. In this\nevent, counselling and referral to the appropriate resource may be all that is\nrequired.\nFor a number of others, however, social, health, educational, and employment\nfactors may all be involved, and joint case consultation by representatives of these\ndisciplines facilitates provision of the kind of opportunity and help that is needed\nif the person is to attain self-dependence.\nFor this purpose special rehabilitation committees for disabled persons have\nbeen established in Nanaimo, Chilliwack, and Prince George, bringing together\nrepresentatives of the National Employment Service, the Provincial Health Branch,\nand the Department of Social Welfare in joint planning on behalf of a selected\nnumber of disabled persons. By these means, it has been possible to assist disabled\npersons back to employment, who would otherwise have required continued assistance. These projects have clearly demonstrated the key importance of skilled\nsocial-work services in enabling the disabled recipient to take advantage of the\nopportunities that can be made available by this medium.   The projects have also\n j 38 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nbeen of considerable value in improving the general working relations among the\nlocal health, welfare, and employment agencies.\nFAMILY SERVICE\nThese are services intended to reduce or prevent the damaging effects that\ndependence on public assistance has for families and family members. When\nassistance is of a very temporary nature, they are less needed. They become critical\nconsiderations when continued assistance is necessary. The loss of status and the\neconomic deprivation that result from full dependence on public assistance tend to\nproduce breakdown in family functioning and to lead to the development of serious\ncharacter problems. These may have ultimate results in continued family patterns\nof public dependence, in family desertion, child neglect, mental breakdown, alcoholism, delinquency, and crime, all problems that are exceedingly costly and difficult to\nresolve. While experience has repeatedly shown the importance of greatly increased\nefforts to prevent these effects, public assistance programmes have found it increasingly difficult to provide such services in the face of rising case loads. It is hoped\nthat by separating staff functions better use can be made of available professional\npersonnel, and the effectiveness of staff services can be greatly increased.\nBOARDS OF REVIEW\nA total of 35 Boards of Review was held.   Of these, 21 were in favour of the\nGENERAL\nIn the end, to the extent this is possible, the best prevention is to obviate the\nneed for assistance by expansion of opportunities for education, training, and\nemployment. It must be recognized that the social assistance recipient has often\nknown little but failure in meeting the competitive standards of society. The evidence is that he often continues to be passed over for employment and training that\nis within his capacities, in favour of others with higher academic qualifications.\nIt would appear desirable to gear programmes and provisions more specifically to\nhis need as one of the most vulnerable members of society.\nExperience has shown the success of the programme in the end is very dependent on the special skills and knowledge of the social worker. To the extent that\nthese services can be maintained, extended, and improved, many people now disabled by social problems can be returned to satisfying self-dependence with a resultant saving both in the cost of public assistance and in the potential cost of future\nsocial problems that are thereby prevented.\nSincere thanks go to all the staff of the Provincial and municipal offices and to\nthe staff of other agencies, private and public,' for their efforts in furthering the\nobjectives of this programme.\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64\nCHILD WELFARE DIVISION\nMiss Mary K. King, Superintendent\nThe family and child welfare programme of the Department of Social Welfare\nis administered by the Child Welfare Division of the Department. It is staffed\nby 13 social workers, including the Superintendent of Child Welfare and Deputy\nSuperintendent of Child Welfare, and 26V4 stenographic and clerical staff. A consultative service to field staff and other child welfare agencies is slowly being\ndeveloped. In order to give the most efficient service, the field staff need strong\nsupport and guidance from consultant staff in the Division. It is expected that\nfurther progress in this will be made during the next fiscal year.\nThe Division functions through four sections\u2014the Family Service and Protection Section (this includes services to unmarried mothers), the Child-in-care Placement Section, the Adoption Placement Section (located in Vancouver), and the\nAdoption Completion Section. Through Federal Welfare Grants, a special placement project for children in care, staffed by a Special Placement Consultant, has\nbeen developed and will be referred to later in this report.\nThe philosophy underlying family and child welfare services is based on a\nfirm conviction of the necessity of preserving and strengthening family life. Strong,\nhealthly adults grow out of strong, healthy families. It is also based on the conviction that children's needs must be met at the time they arise, otherwise the child\ngrows quickly beyond the point of help. The strenth of family life depends largely\nupon what the parents were exposed to in their childhood. Prevention begins,\nthen, at the birth of the child and depends upon our ability to ensure, in so far as\npossible, that the child's need for loving physical and emotional care, education,\nand moral training is met, either by their own parents or, if this is not possible,\nby some other resource. The best alternative resource to a child's own home is\na family home which as nearly as possible substitutes the good own home he might\nhave had.\nThere is a contradiction in our society which is hard to define. On the one\nhand we have relative material affluence and on the other an increase in serious social\nills, such as divorce, desertion, temporary marital relationships, child abuse, delinquent behaviour, a lowering of age and increase in the illegitimacy rate, threatening\nfamily life and healthy childhood growth. Never have we had so much knowledge\nin the social sciences, so many resources available to us in the areas of health,\neducation, social services, and culture, and yet never before has society felt so\nanxious, insecure, and threatened. Perhaps the threat of extinction by man's own\nhand and the tensions created by the sudden economic and social changes which\nhave occurred is too much to expect the frail personality and character structure\nof many men and women, parents, to cope with, and many parents are failing today\nwho could have cared satisfactorily for their children in less turbulent and stressful\ntimes. It is the responsibility of the whole community to find ways of educating\nand strengthening these parents and potential parents, so that they can achieve the\nmaturity required for parenthood in this period of time.\nSERVICE NEEDED BY FAMILIES\nUntil preventive measures have been established on a broad community base,\nas, for example, through parent education clincs, one of the methods of preserving\nand strengthening family life for children is the casework service given by social\nagencies through individual or group counselling.   For this service to be effective,\n j 40 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nthe social worker can work with only a few parents. The cost of social-work\ntime will therefore be high, but not nearly as high as the cost of dealing with the\nresults of broken homes, child neglect and abuse, placement of children born out of\nwedlock, or helping children who have become delinquent in their behaviour or are\nemotionally disturbed (see Table DC).\nOther methods of preserving family life are the provision of adequate financial\nassistance and medical care, both physical and mental, to the family and the use of\nhousekeeper and day-care services. These latter services are under study, with the\nhope of greatly extending their use throughout the Province. The cost of these\nservices will also be high, but it is a constructive use of money which in the long\nrun will help parents to cope more effectively with their responsibilities toward their\nchildren.\nIn reviewing services to family and children in this fiscal year, it is found that\napproximately the same number of families received casework service this year as\nlast year. However, there has been an increase of 346 cases, or 24.9 per cent, in\nthe past two years (see Table I), and this perhaps is a hopeful indication of a\nchanging trend.\nINCREASE LN NUMBER OF CHILDREN ADMITTED TO CARE\nAgain, this fiscal year, there was an increase in the number of new admissions\nof children to care of the Superintendent of Child Welfare and three Children's Aid\nSocieties. Five hundred and eleven more children were admitted than in the previous\nyear, making a total of 3,073 new admissions. One thousand nine hundred and\nseventy-one of these children were admitted by the Department of Social Welfare\nand 1,102 by the three Children's Aid Societies (see Table VHT). In looking at\nthe reasons for admission of children to care of the Superintendent of Child Welfare\n(see Table DC), is was found that of the increase of 376 children over last year, 245\nmore children were admitted for reasons of child neglect, desertion of parent, marital\nproblems, or child behaviour, and 110 more children due to our inability to place\nthe child in an adoption home.\nFor the past several years there has been a consistent increase in the number\nof children being admitted to care. For example, in the fiscal year 1959\/60, 2,025\nwere admitted, while in the year 1963\/64 this number increased to 3,073. This\nincrease is partly due to the increase in general population, but is also due to the\nfactors referred to earlier in this report.\nThe Superintendent of Child Welfare and three Children's Aid Societies were\ncaring for 6,542 children as at March 31, 1964, an increase of 554 over the last\nfiscal year. For the first time in compiling this annual report, the duplication created\nby transfer of supervision of children from one agency to another has been eliminated\nfrom Table IV (for explanation see footnote to Table IV). During this fiscal year\n1,168 more children were cared for by the Superintendent of Child Welfare and\nthree Children's Aid Societies than during the previous year (see Table TV).\nPLACEMENT RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN\nThis very large family of 6,542 children for whom the Superintendent of Child\nWelfare and three Children's Aid Societies share responsibility require a diversity\nof placement resources because of their varying needs. As can be seen from Table\nXH, the vast majority of children were cared for in foster homes. The remaining\nchildren were cared for in institutions and adoption homes or were maintaining\nthemselves from their own income.    Four hundred and fourteen wards of the\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL\nSuperintendent of Child Welfare and Children's Aid Societies were living in adoption\nhomes on adoption probation and 542 in varying kinds of institutional care.\nTable XIII gives a breakdown of institutional care and shows an increasing\nnumber of children cared for in small group-living homes operated by child-caring\nagencies. As at March 31, 1964, the Department of Social Welfare had three\ngroup-living homes for teen-age children\u2014two for boys and one for girls, and each\nto accommodate six to eight children. There were also eight receiving homes for\ninfants and four receiving homes for other children. Plans were under way to open,\nin the coming year, three receiving and observation homes for eight children each.\nOne home is to be opened in Prince Rupert with the help of the Friendship House\nAssociation, another in Fort St. John with the help of the Rotary Club, and the\nthird in Terrace with fhegrafetance of the Terrace and District Christian Welfare\nCouncil for Social Resources. A fourth group-living home, for 16 teen-age boys,\nwas in the planning state and will likely be opened in the next fiscal year.\nThe very active participation of community groups in the development of\nplacement resources is an important new development in our placement programme,\nand one that it is hoped will extend throughout the whole of the Province. There\nis also a beginning of community participation in our educational programme for\nfoster parents. At the end of this fiscal year, with the help of a community committee, the Dawson Creek district office had plans well under way for a six-week\neducational programme for foster parents. In Trail a volunteer group of women\nis assisting in the recruiting and preliminary visiting of foster-home applicants. This\nkind of joint effort between voluntary community service and professional staff is\none of the best ways of strengthening our service to children.\nBecause of the large number of children requiring special placement due to\nthe seriousness of their problems, and for the need to make the best use possible\nof available resources and to encourage the development of others, a Special Placement Consultant was added to the staff of the Child Welfare Division in November,\n1963. This was a Federal Welfare Grant project (shared in by the Province),\nwhich has already proven its worth and will be a continuing one.\nA new venture was entered into this year in collaboration with the Mental\nHealth Services. This was a carefully planned foster-home placement programme\nfor children either in The Woodlands School or on the waiting list for The Woodlands School. It is hoped that within this project 30 children can be placed in either\nfoster or group-living homes. The experience gained from this project will be a\nguide to the extension of the programme throughout the Province.\nMAINTENANCE GOSTSo'Jqo\nThe gross maintenance costs for children increased this year to $4,907,387\n(see Table XTV). This is an increase of $620,514.14 over last year. A considerable portion of htis increase can be related to the increased number of babies admitted to care awaiting adoption placement. It is expected that in the next fiscal\nyear research can be undertaken by the Department into the factors relating to\nadmissions to care.\nNEW LEGISLATION\nAmendments were made to the Children of Unmarried Parents Act and the\nAdoption Act during this fiscal year. The amendments to the Children of Unmarried Parents Act were of an aa_inistrative nature, while the major amendment to\nthe Adoption Act was the shortening of the year's probationary period to six months.\nIt is believed that six months is a long enough period of time to observe the child in\n j 42 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nthe adoptive home and to give whatever help is required to the adopting parents.\nAt the same time the lessening of the period achieves security for the child more\nquickly through finalization of the adoption.\nCHILDREN BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK\nAs can be seen from Table XVI, there was an increase of 482 children born\nout of wedlock during the fiscal year 1963\/64.   The highest percentage of increase\noccurred in the 20-24-year-old age-group of unmarried mothers.\nDuring the past year community concern has been expressed about the increasing number of unmarried mothers and especially in the younger age-group. It is\nbelieved that sex education, properly given, and education for parenthood, as well as\nfamily counselling, can have positive influence upon the prevention of unmarried\nparenthood and the problems created by this.\nFURTHER INCREASE LN SERVICES TO UNMARRIED\nMOTHERS REQUIRED\nAs would be expected from the general increase in numbers of unmarried\nmothers, more unmarried mothers were served by the Department of Social Welfare\nand three Children's Aid Societies during this fiscal year than during the last year.\nThe increase was 589. A total of 3,307 unmarried mothers received service (1,556\nby the Department of Social Welfare and 1,751 by the three Children's Aid Societies) (see Table XV). This increase in unmarried mothers affects our adoption\nprogramme as more adoption homes are required to plan for the children born out\nof wedlock.\nSixty-two maintenance orders, 60 agreements, and seven settlements were made\nduring this fiscal year.   The total amount of money collected was $117,034.67.\nADOPTION PLACEMENT PROGRAMME\nBecause of the critical situation created by the serious shortage of adoption\nhomes, special-emphasis was placed on adoption placement services this fiscal year.\nIn June, 1963, seven additional social workers were added to the Department of\nSocial Welfare staff and placed in those offices throughout the Province where there\nwere the greatest number of adoption applications awaiting study, and a Federal\nWelfare Grant project was undertaken in one of the larger offices. A workshop on\nadoptions was held with the three Children's Aid Societies and Department of\nSocial Welfare in January, 1964, and plans were laid for a Province-wide recruitment programme. Adoption Standards were reviewed in the fight of present supply\nof children for adoption placement and demand for children by adopting applicants.\nAn adoption recruitment pamphlet was published and given wide distribution.\nAs a result of this planning, the backlog of adoption applications awaiting study\nwas eliminated by the end of this fiscal year, and a committee chaired by the supervisor of the Adoption Placement section of the Department of Social Welfare and\ncomprised of representatives from the staff and boards of directors of the three\nChildren's Aid Societies and from the Department of Social Welfare had plans well\nunder way for an active Province-wide recruitment programme. The Catholic\nWomen's League, which plans a Province-wide recruitment programme next year,\noffered to co-ordinate its efforts with those of this committee. It is believed that\nthe full extent of the recruitment programme will not be felt for two or three years,\nand that it will have to be maintained at high gear during that time. However, at\nthe time of writing this report the results are most positive and give rise.to optimism.\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J 43\nDuring the fiscal year, 964 children were placed for adoption by the Department of Social Welfare and Children's Aid Societies, an increase of 23 over the\nprevious year. Six hundred and thirteen of these children were placed by the\nDepartment of Social Welfare and 351 by the three Children's Aid Societies (see\nTable XIX). While the increase in the number of placements was only slight, it\nwas achieved by the great efforts made by the Adoption Placement Section and\nfield staff of the Department of Social Welfare and the three Children's Aid Societies. It is also worthy of note that the number of Roman Catholic children placed\nfor adoption increased by 12, and it is believed that this trend will be accelerated\nin the coming year.\nADOPTION HOMES AVAILABLE\nThere was a slight increase of 18 adoption homes available for placement at\nthe end of this fiscal year (Department of Social Welfare, 49 (see Table XVII),\nand three Children's Aid Societies, 70).\nCHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS\nOne hundred and fifty-five children with special heeds were placed for adoption\nduring this fiscal year. Sixty-seven of these children were of interracial origin or\norigin other than white, 36 had health problems, and 52 were over 1 year of age\n(see Table XXLU). The general pressure created by the lack of available adoption\nhomes affected the placement of children with special needs, so that less children\nwere placed this year than last year.\nThe effect of the crisis in shortage of adoption homes has created a very\nserious situation in our total placement programme due to the increasing number\nof children being placed in temporary foster-home care awaiting adoption placement. As these children become older, their adoption placement becomes more\ndifficult and their stay in a foster home is unduly prolonged. For many years the\ngoal in this Province has been to place as many infants from hospital as possible,\nas it is believed that early placement with permanent parents is of the greatest importance for the well-being of the tiny infant and his future development and\nsecurity. This year only one-third of the adoption placements made were from a\nhospital. The Department of Social Welfare and three Children's Aid Societies\nshould be able to demonstrate during the next fiscal year whether the shortage of\nadoption homes is a chronic situation or whether it is one which can be solved by\nthe searching-out of adoption homes through recruitment and adequate service to\nadoption applicants and unmarried mothers.\nCOMPLETED ADOPTIONS\nThere was a slight increase of 49 in the adoptions completed in this fiscal year.\nNine hundred and fifty-two adoptions were completed by the Department of Social\nWelfare and 506 by the three Children's Aid Societies. Of these adoptions, 70\nwere made privately and 463 were relative adoptions (see Table XXIV). While\nthe decrease in private placements was not significant, being only five, the trend\ncontinues downward, and this is encouraging. The next fiscal year will be a difficult\none due to the shortening of the probationary period from one year to six months.\nThere will be a peak period during which the completion of the one-year probation\nand six-month probation will overlap. Field staff of the Department of Social\nWelfare and Children's Aid Societies and the Adoption Completion Section of the\nDivision will be hard pressed to cope with this situation, and the understanding and\npatience of the legal profession will be sought and, I feel sure, obtained.\n J 44 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nCONCLUSION\nDuring this year there have been increasing indications of community concern\nand interest, and it is hoped that this interest will be intensified and made use of\nduring the next year. The causes of our social ills are so general that they must be\nattacked and treated on a total community level through voluntary community\neffort, governments, and professional disciplines. Co-ordination of research into\nneeds, planning for services to meet these needs, and the giving of the services is\nmost necessary. This calls for interpretation to the public of services which are\npresently being given. It also calls for interpretation of the philosophy underlying\nservices to those in need of financial and personal services. Perhaps this can be\naccomplished not only through broad publicity media, such as the press, but also\nand perhaps most effectively through committee structure bringing together the\nlaymen, professionals, and Government representatives. It is hoped that by some\nsuch means the emphasis in service will be shifted from palliative to preventive measures, and, as a result, we will be able to report an annual decrease in the number of\nchildren removed from their own families rather than an increase. It is true that\nchildren are a country's greatest responsibility and asset. It is evident by their\nactions that many people in this Province not only believe this but are giving of\nthemselves through dedication to the goal of helping each child achieve his full\npotential. To all of these I wish to express my deep appreciation and thanks.\nA special thank you is given to the staff of the Department of Social Welfare,\nmunicipal offices, and Children's Aid Societies, including the foster parents and\ngroup-home parents, who are so vital a part of our services to children.\nIn concluding this report I must give very special thanks to the staff of the\nChild Welfare Division, with whom I work so closely. Both clerical and social-\nwork staff have worked beyond the call of duty and have been motivated by their\nown desire to ensure, in so far as they can make it possible, that the best is done\nfor each child for whom we are privileged to give a service.\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J 4J\nSTATISTICAL TABLES\nList of Tables\nTable I.\u2014Family Services Cases.\nTable II.\u2014Services Related to Protection of Children.\nTable HI.\u2014Requests Received from Family Allowances Division.\nTable TV.\u2014Number of Children in Care of Superintendent of Child Welfare and\nChildren's Aid Societies.\nTable V.\u2014Number of Children in Care of Superintendent of Child Welfare and\nChildren's Aid Societies by Legal Status, Regions, and Societies.\nTable VI.\u2014Number of Children Who Are the Legal Responsibility of the Superintendent of Child Welfare and Children's Aid Societies (new table).\nTable VII.\u2014Children in Care by Age-group.\nTable VIII.\u2014Number of Children Admitted to Care by Legal Status.\nTable DC.\u2014Reasons for New Admissions to Care.\nTable X.\u2014Number of Children\"Dischargedirom Care by Legal Status.\nTable XI.\u2014Reasons for Discharge of Children in Care.\nTable XII.\u2014Number of Children in Care of Superintendent of Child Welfare and\nChildren's Aid Societies by Type of Care (new table).\nTable XLTJ.\u2014Children Receiving Institutional Care.\nTable'XTV.\u2014Maintenance Costs.\nTable XV.\u2014Number of Unmarried Mothers Served by Department of Social\nWelfare and Children's Aid Societies (new table).\nTable XVI.\u2014Number of Children Born Out of Wedlock in British Columbia.\nTable XVII.\u2014Number of Adoption Homes Awaiting Placement, Homes in Which\nPlacement Made, and Homes Closed.\nTable XVIII.\u2014Number of Adoption Placements Made by Department of Social\nWelfare by Type of Placement and by Regions.\nTable XDC.\u2014Number of Adoption Placements Made by Department of Social\nWelfare and Children's Aid Societies.\nTable XX.\u2014Number of Adoption Placements Made by Department of Social\nWelfare by Religion of Adopting Parents and by Region.\nTable XXI.\u2014Ages of Children Placed for Adoption by Department of Social\nWelfare.\nTable XXII.\u2014Children of Interracial Origin and Origin Other than White Placed\nfor Adoption.\nTable XXIH.\u2014Number of Children with Special Needs Placed for Adoption.\nTableXXIV.\u2014Number of Legally Completed Adoptions.\n j 46 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nTable I.\u2014Number of Family Service Cases (Not in Receipt of Financial Assistance\nfrom Department of Social Welfare) Served by Department of Social Welfare\nduring the Fiscal Year 1963\/64 and as at March 31, 1964.\noSf\nOpened\nCOS.\nT\u00a3i\nIII\nA rfl 1963\n||\nl\nHI\ni\n1,352\nS!i_________E___\nim\nTable II.\u2014Cases1 Receiving Services from Department of Social Welfare and Children's Aid Societies2 Related to Protection of Children, by Type of Service, for\nthe Fiscal Years 1962\/63 and 1963\/64.\nService\nOpting\nCarrier\ncuring\nEndmofYe_\n.962\/63\n1963\/64\n,962\/63\n.963\/64\n1962\/63\n.963\/64\nCus\nl\n|\njii\nm\n14\nTjgltim.tiAn             .     \u25a0\u25a0    ,     1\n6\n289\n387\n352\n461\n74\nReceived during fiscal year\t\nReferrals pending April 1, 1963 ..\nTotal number of requests referred _\nReferrals completed\t\nReferrals pending March 31, 1964 ..\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64 J 47\nTable IV.\u2014Number of Children in Care of the Superintendent of Child Welfare and\n\u25a0 the Children's A id Societies during and at the End of the Fiscal Year 1963\/64\nSuperintendent of Child Welfare  5,829 4,024\n;   VancouveSglffldren's Aid Society  2,124 1,371\nCatholic Children's Aid Society of Vancouver   4~\u2014      1,078 730\nVictoria Children's Aid Society J     659 417\n  3,861         2,518\nTotals .  9.6902 6.5421\nTable V.\u2014Number of Children in Care* of the Superintendent of Child Welfare and\nof the Children's Aid Societies by Legal Status, Regions, and Societies as at\nMarch 31,1964.\nH\nas\nVV^\n1!\n\u00a3\u00a3\nIff\nTotal\nggi\";^ it\n1\n20\n1\n1\nl\ni\nRegion V               '._''._ \u25a0   H     _'\nRegion VII\n1\nI?\nden. of Child Welfare\t\nS\n'3\nPi\nJ\n.5.\n9.\n4.024\nSK?~iA,dSoc,ay- ^com\"\"\nChildren s Aid Societies*\t\n4,998\n402\n231\n48\n520\n343\n6,542\n J 48                                                    BRITISH COLUMBIA\nTable VI.1\u2014Number of Children Who Are the Legal Responsibility of the Superintendent of Child Welfare and of the Children's Aid Societies by Legal Status,\nRegions, and Societies as at March 31,1964.\n%\u00a3\nBcEe\n&fc\nP?\"\nj&\nXotal\nSupertn^ofCWWeVare\n|\n1\n1\nI\n365\nSI:            \u2014:\nTt\u00a3En\u00a33 SSSjSStaSoiS W^\n3 70,\n*\n54\n330\n\u25a0\n- , ;\u2022\"   ',:;;\u25a0      '    , \u201e, ir\n,,02\n\u25a0\n\u00bb\n151\nw\n,0\n^4==tiw^i^\n\u20224\n1\nJ\n20\n697\ng    ^SScSrSSi\n668\n63\n.. 5^\n20\n756\n|\n\u00bb\n36\n48\n326\n249\n14\n38\n50\n351\n5.277\n4*7\n243\n54\n551\n6,532\u00bb\n^B^^^^zl^S^S^^\u00a3B\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64         J 49\nTable VII.\u2014Children in Care of Superintendent of Child Welfare and Children's\nAid Societies by Age-group at March 31,1964\n\u00ab\u2014\nH\nlj\u00a7\nH\nGsI:C\nTotal\nUndr3\n465\n169\n1\nJ\nl\nU :; \u00a711\nTotals\t\n4,024\n1,371\n730\n417\n6,5421\nTable VIII.\u2014Number of Children Admitted to Care of Superintendent of Child\nWelfare and of Children's Aid Societies by Legal Status during the Fiscal Year\n1963\/64.\nSj\ngig\nV1S:\nH\n^\n\"si\n^i\u00a7^BBBUM\\\n1.259       1       226\n144\nM\nll\nTotal of new admissions\t\n:H   |    i\u00ab?\n\"1\n^\n3'629\nTotal of new admissions and transfers-\n2,294       |       806       \u25a0\n315\n287\n3,702\n Table IX.\u2014Reasons for New Admissions of Children to the Care of Superintendent\nof Child Welfare during-the-Fiscal Year 1963\/64\nNeglect -  546\nDesertion of one or both parents                       99\nIllness of parent _ :  224\nDeath of mother   53\nRehabilitation of parents  65\nTransient child  73\nMinor unmarried mother  32\nBehaviour of child _                                             188\nMedical care  12\nPhysical handicap or mental retardation                      \u2014  25\nEducation and training  27\nRemoved from adoption placement  4\nAwaiting adoption placement .  364\nMarital problem           - 172\nAt request of other Provinces  30\nOn transfer of guardianship  56\nOn change of legal status ... .             1\nTotal m\nv admissions..\n. 1,971\nTransfer of supervision from other agencies\t\nTotal new admissions and transfers _\nTable X.\u2014Number of Children Discharged from the Care of the Superintendent of\nChild Welfare and of Children's Aid Societies by Legal Status during the\nFiscal Year 1963\/64.\nwm\nCnSr.\n\u25a03B\niftr\n-IS-\nTotal\n?^pl#s^s\n528         J         313\n.06\n28\n\u2122\nApprehended but not presente,\n\t\n045\nOther Provinces' wards\t\n33\nTotal direct discharg\nesfrom\n'm     1      m\nl\nz\n2 537\nesand\nlid          1\n,806         (         749\n342\n268\n3,1\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE,  1963\/64 I 51\nTable XI.\u2014Reasons for Discharge of Children in Care of Superintendent of Child\nWelfare and Children's Aid Societies for the Fiscal Year 1963\/64\nKeasonsforOischarge\nCnSiEe\ncKSd\nill\n|\n|p\nTotal\nin\n4.\nI\n3\nJ\n159\nWimtownfromCourt\n-\u2014\u2014\n.93\n,29                f _.     1\nii\nNMei\n165\nTwentymo yeI\u00b0sTagf\t\nl\nk\n3\n1\n.\n4\n!\u2014\nTransfer oSpSo'S\u2014--\n1,5282      1      m\n^\n2S      |     *\u00ab\u00a3\n,.806         |         749\n342\n268         |      3,65\nTable XII.\u2014Number of Children in Care of Superintendent of Child Welfare and\nChildren's Aid Societies by Type of Care as at March 31,1964\n j 52                                                   BRITISH COLUMBIA\nTable XIII.-^Children Who Are the Legal Responsibility of the Superintendent of\nChild Welfare and Children's Aid Societies Receiving Institutional Care as at\ninstitution\nTota,\n^Hn\nyj\n\"^ E\n|\n1\n1\n1\n5,\n79\n17\n6\n,03\n1\nD\n1\n!\ni\n66\n4\n7\n79\n|Mrgyrs^,_zzz=              :\n!\n%\n1\ni\n!\n1\n\"2\nj\n1\n6.               46\n20\n19\n146\ni i\n1\ni\n33\n\u00bb\n56\n2                  I\n,\nI\nC\u00bbCnirS and related correctional\n117       |       57               57\nMHggs&iiHE\n_\u00ab\n^aTsupV\n\u00a32S*.\nSfe\nS\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMriNi? OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        f-93\nTable XIV.\u2014Cost of Maintaining Children in Care of the Superintendent of Child\nWelfare and Children's Aid Societies\nGross cost of maintenance of children in Child Welfare\nDivision foster homes ___'\u2014'\u25a0 $2,244,665.00\nGross cost to Provincial Government of maintenance of\nchildren in care of Children's Aid Societies    2,519,434.00\nGross cost of transportation of children in care of Super\nintendent -\n26,877.00\nGross cost of hospitalization of newborn infants being\npermanently planned for by Superintendent         45,311.00\nGrants to sundry homes!...         71,100.00\nLess collections !\nTable XV.\u2014Number of Unmarried Mothers Served by the Department of Social\nWelfare and Children's Aid Societies for the Fiscal Year 1963\/64\nMa?\nOpened\u2014\nF|fl\nFisldiear\npfcfSr\n\u00abg5^^^i\n43*7\n*ra\n'fl\n'SM\nl\n1,131\n2,176\n3,307\n2,023\nTable XVI.\u2014Number of Children Born Out of Wedlock in British Columbia by\nAge-group of Mother during the Fiscal Years 1962\/63 and 1963\/64\n  REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J 55\nTable XVIII. Number of Adoption Placements Made by the Department of Social\nWelfare by Type of Placement and by Regions for the Fiscal Year 1963\/64\nKegion\nTypeofPiacement\nDirect Placement\nFoste\nHome to Ad\noption\nSSK\n&SS\nE\nIn Another Home\nTotal\nSSSSL\n\u00a3\u00a3\u00a3\n\u00ab\ni\na\n\\\nis\nf\n124\nTo\n195\n1\n32\n374\nli\nTflfi\/e _\/\u201e.\u2014Number of Children Placed for Adoption by the Department of Social\nWelfare and Children's Aid Societies for the Fiscal Years 1962\/63 and 1963\/64\nVancouver Children's Aid Society _.\nCatholic Children's Aid Society\t\nVictoria Children's Aid Society\t\nTable XX.\u2014Number of Adoption Placements Made by the Department of Social\nWelfare by Religion of Adopting Parents and by Region for the Fiscal Year\n1963\/64.\n 56 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nTable XXL\u2014Ages of Children Placed for Adoption by Department of Social\nWelfare during the Fiscal Year 1963\/64\n15 days but under 1 month \u2014\n1 month but under 3 months _\n3 months but under 6 months _\n6 months but under 12 months J\nTable XXII.\u2014Children of Interracial Origin and Racial Origin Other than White\nPlaced for Adoption by Department of Social Welfare According to Sex of the\nChild and Religion of the Adopting Parent during the Fiscal Year 1963\/64.\nS\u00bbofChild\nReWon\nof Adopt*\nK Parent\nMale\nFemale\nTot_\nPr_r\negg\nTotal\n*\nJ\n5\n1\nI\nMa\u00b0ri \u2122\u00ab wUte .\t\npillf^Sg ~\nE\n35\n32\n67\n59\n8\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J\nTable XXIII.\u2014Number of Children with Special Needs Placed for Adoption\nDepartment of Social Welfare during the Fiscal Year 1963\/64\nInterracial origin and origin other than white *Mj*rfj 67\nHealth problems \u2014\u00a3 36\nOver 1 year of age1. bovvi k: :       52\nTotal -\n. 155\n%g$&k%JV\u2014Number of Legally Completed Adoptions by Type of Placement, by\nRegions and Children's Aid Societies, during the Fiscal Year 1963\/64\nti\u00a3S\nType of\nPUrcement\nE\nRei\nm\nTotal\n,\u00a3\u00a3.\nOther\nt\n1\n1\n|\n10\n> IsJgTO\n12\n102\nU2\n274\n359\n111\n16\n20\n925\n410 (4\ni3)   \"\n70\n1,458\n BRITISH COLUMBIA\nMEDICAL SERVICES DIVISION\nP. W. Laundy, M.D., Director\nDuring the past year, Medical Services Division has experienced a further\nincrease in the use of the services adniinistered under its programme. While endeavouring to cope with the increased demands, efforts have been made to improve the\nquality of the programme.\nTo further improve the coverage of the dental programme, it was extended\nduring this past year to include the children in care of the three Children's Aid\nSocieties of the Province. Prior to this, each society had been responsible for\nadministering its own dental programme. By this extension, the aim is to provide\nan equally high standard of dental treatment to all children in care.\nBy the volume of dental services provided to all categories, it would appear\nthat the programme is well accepted by the dental profession, and that, as a consequence,' many individuals and families are receiving an improved standard of dental\nThe need for transportation by welfare recipients requiring medical care\ncontinues to increase as the population in northern centres continues to grow.\nUntil these areas secure more medical specialists and centres, this need to bring our\nclients to Lower Mainland centres for medical treatment will continue. There is\nevery reason to believe that this situation will change in the near future as medical\nresources improve, especially in the Prince George area.\nResources provided by voluntary organizations have been always of great\nassistance to the social welfare recipient. It is hoped that such resources will continue to be used and will be further developed, especially in the rapidly growing\nareas of the Province.\nAs noted in last year's report, the cost of the drug programme continues to\nincrease. This year a jump in the cost of drugs is evident despite an actual decrease\nin the number of prescriptions. The generous drug provision is currently receiving\ncloser examination by the members of the Drug Advisory Committee.\nReference to Table VI shows a fairly marked increase in optometric services.\nThe medical care and optical services provided by the eye specialists is not included\nin this table.\nUnfortunately there is little indication in this report of the rehabilitative impact\nof our services. Provision of medical treatment to the client on social assistance can\noften result in his becoming once again a contributing member of society. For the\nold-age pension recipient, the provision of a prosthetic device can mean many more\nyears of active and useful living that would otherwise have to be lived in a nursing\nFor the enormous amount of medical treatment made available through the\nassistance of the family physicians and various specialists, we are constantly grateful.\nAs this part of the programme is administered by the medical profession on a per\ncapita basis, it is not outlined in tabular form in this report.\nIn January of this year the Division was fortunate to obtain the services of\nMr. Clifford S. Jones as Social Work Consultant. Mr. Jones fills the vacancy created\nby the early retirement of Miss Aileen Mann in April of last year, after a long and\nhappy association with the Department.\nIn conclusion we must include a note of thanks to all organizations who have\nco-operated with us in the past year to provide our clients with health service bene-\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT [\nF SOCIAL WELFARE,  1963\/64\nfits.   These include the professional associations, hospitals, and medical centres, as\nwell as the organizations who provide facilities for care and rehabilitation.\nAppreciation is also expressed to the members of our Division as well as to\nother members of the departments of our Government who have assisted us so\nreadily. Without their ready co-operation, very little of our programme could have\nbeen implemented.\nSTATISTICAL TABLES\nTable I.\u2014Gross Costs for Fiscal Years 1959\/60 to 1963\/64\nFisca\nYear\nMedical\nDrugs*\nDental\nOptical\nTx-\nOther\nTotal,\n1QW\/60\nHi\nill\nlOWMS\n%Vl%\n1\n\u00a7p#\n$3 697,606.19\n1963\/64 _\n'^Mrt\u00aba\nTable II.\u2014Payments to British Columbia Doctors (Gross Costs)\nFiscalYear\nA&Sce\n|\nIn\n^\u00b0B_d0^d\nA^nce\nISssL\nTOHT\n1QW\/60\n*\nl\np\n76,742\nTal\nle IV.\u2014Drug Costs\nNumber of Prescriptions\nCosts of Medidn\nB__S\nDrug\n.ores\nTo_\n\u00a3__$\nDrug-stores\nTotal\n1959\/60\n\u25a0\nll\n11\n\"sWmS\n111!\n BRITISH COLUMBIA\nTable V.\u2014Dental Expenses\nFiseaiYear\nProphylaxis\ng\ns\nDentures\nTota,\ns\n*65\n1\n111\n$50fl',3!\nnn\u00bb\nTafefe W.\u2014Optica\/ Costs\nFiscalYear\n|pf\u00a7\u00a7\n||\nTotal\n1<KO\/\u00abl\n$15 589 00\nll\n$79 632 04\niS\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J 61\nOLD-AGE ASSISTANCE, BLIND PERSONS' ALLOWANCES, DISABLED\nPERSONS' ALLOWANCES, AND SUPPLEMENTARY ASSISTANCE\nE. W. Berry, Chairman\nGENERAL\nThe Provincial authority for the aetainistration of the Old-age Assistance Act,\nthe Blind Perso[ns{Act, and the Disabled Persons Act is a Board within the Department of Social Welfare consisting of three members appointed by the Lieutenant-\nGovernor in Council.\nIn addition to being charged with the administration in British Columbia of\nthe above three Acts, including the consideration of applications for and the payment of assistance or an allowance, the Board is the central agency for the processing of all applications within the Province for Supplementary Social Allowance\nand related health services, and grants these additional Provincial benefits where\napplicable.\nSocial workers attached to the Board complete applications both in the home\nand at the Board office for the categorial allowances and for Supplementary Social\nAllowance from clients living in the City of Vancouver. Welfare workers from\nthe Board also complete annual visits within the city and throughout the Province,\nwhere feasible, mainly in connection with the Supplementary Social Allowance\nprogramme.\nEffective December 1, 1963, the monthly payment in respect of the categorical\nallowances increased from $65 to $75, and the maximum allowable annual income\nlimits were raised accordingly, although no change was made in the maximum Supplementary Social Allowance payment of $24 a month. Every effort was made by\nthe staff to adjust the rates in pay as quickly as possible, hence no delay in receiving\nthe increases was experienced by the clients.\nThe change in rate mentioned in the fiscal year under review was only one of\nthe many which have occurred in the-past few years, and to summarize these various\nchanges a table has been prepared on the following page showing the changes in\nthe monthly rates and when they occurred and other pertinent information.\nThe basis on which the client's \" need \" for Supplementary Social Allowance\nis determined was simplified, effective October 1, 1963, to coincide with the increase\nin Old Age Security pension from $65 to $75 per month. From that date a fixed\namount was allowed to cover the clients' need for food, clothing, household operation, and miscellaneous expenses. Although this resulted in a complete review of\nthe total case load by the Board to determine what portion of the amount in pay\nto the client was shareable with the Federal Government under the Unemployment\nAssistance Agreement, it was anticipated that the time involved in completing future\nannual reports in the field and in processing these field service reports at the Board\noffice would be decreased appreciably by utilizing the simplified approach.\nIn spite of the extraordinary volume of work entailing the use of overtime\nsxperienced clerks are required to make adjustments), the percentage of staff\n~~m continued to remain i '\n BRITISH COLUMBIA\nsi*\n\u00a7\nm\n\u00a3\nB    8SS\ns\n<\nj\no\nI\n8\nI\n||21\nEE      1\n\u00bb! i\n04\nlip\nMl S,   SRI    IS    \u00bb\nI\n<\nQ\n>\n1\nW\nw\nIs!\njllll\nIgia.MSl    II M\n||Jf\n1 1 II 1 1 1 If    1     1 1   SB 1     IB     iP\nI\n>>\n1\nS^ol\n1 1 1 1 1 1 1 If     1     1 1   SB 1   8 1    S 1\nJ\nJ\nJJ\nH\nI\nsi\n6&\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J\nSTATISTICS FOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 1964\nOld-age Assistance\nTable I.\u2014Disposition of Applications\nNew applications received\t\nApplications granted \u2014\t\nApplications not granted (refused, withdrawn, i\nH\n. 1,905 *\nTable II.\u2014Miscellaneous\n(a) British Columbia recipients\u2014\nReturned to British Columbia\t\nReinstated\t\nSuspended  \t\nDeaths _\nTransferred to other Provinces\t\nTransferred to Old Age Security\t\nTotal number on payroll at end of fiscal year_.\n(b) Other-Province recipients-\nTansferred out of British Columbia -i.arn83 ~*?$a.\nTransferred to Old Age Security __-      -\u25a0.        16\n(c) Total number of British Columbia and other-Province recipients on payroll at end of fiscal year I \u25a0 '<   mA yts.- 6,859\nTable III.\u2014Reasons Why Applications Not Granted\nNot sufficient residence\t\nIncome in excess: i\t\nUnable to prove residence _\nTransfer of property ..\nAp^hcation<^thdrawn _.\u00a32._\nApplicants died-before grant _\nJWheJeaboutS .unkno wn ,.\nOver 70 years of age\t\nAssistance from private source\nReceiving Old Age Security _\nMiscellaneous\t\n J. 64                                             'BRITISH COLUMBIA\nTable IV.\u2014Sex of New Recipients\nMale                   . .                                                     897\nFemale                                . - -    -          -                 1,008\n47.1\n52.9\n100.0\nTable V.\u2014Marital Status of New Recipients\nMarried                                 ...             .....     761\nSingle                                                 \" -      288\n39.9\n15.1\n20.9\n5.7\n14.8\n3.6\nSeparated                                                                        281\nDivorced                                              ..                          68\nTotals                                                           1,905\n100.0\nTable VI.\u2014Birthplace of New Recipients\n12.4\n22.1\n19.7\n0.4\n9.6\nTotals ....                                                  1 Q01\n100.0\n====\n=\nTable VII.\u2014Ages at Granting of Assistance\nAge 65 ..                                  559           636            1,195\nAge 66                  .                  126           120              246\n62.7\n12.9\n11.5\n6.5\nTotals ...    .  1,905\n100.0\naooT     grll                            ..;\u201e ^\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64\nTable VfHH^-Ages of Recipients at Death\nAge 65 \u2014yitsy to y.It.        30 12\nAge 66 3\"M  :..-_n _ 48 20\nAge 67 LI       44 18\nAge 68 lh _... =        56 23\nAge 69 - -        57 24\nTable IX.\u2014With Whom New Recipients Live\nLiving with spouse and children _\nLiving with children\t\nLiving with other relatives\t\nLiving with others\t\nTable X.\u2014Where New Recipients Are Living\nIn own home i 792 41.6\nIn rented house . 213 11.2\nIn children's home 207 10.9\nIn home of other relatives 56 2.9\nIn housekeeping room._\nIn single room (eating o\nIn rented suite\t\nIn public institutions\t\nIn private it\n BRITISH COLUMBIA\nTable XI.\u2014Economic Status of New Recipients\n(a) Holding real property of value\u2014\n$0\t\n$1 to $250 _\n$251 to $500\t\n$501 to $750\t\n$751 to $1,000 __\n$1,001 to $1,500 ..\n$1,501 to $2,000 ..\n$2,001 and up\t\n(b) Holding personal property of value-\n$0 \t\n$1 to $250\t\n$251 to $500\t\n$501 to $750\t\n$751 to $1,000\t\n$1,001 to $1,500\t\n$1,501 to $2,000\t\n$2,001 and up\t\nTotals\t\nTable XII.\u2014Number of Recipients Living in Other Provinces as at March 31,1964,\nWhose Assistance Is Paid by British Columbia\nAlberta \u00a7_L_ .  34\nSaskatchewan i 14\nManitoba  '__ 13\nOntario L_ J 23\nQuebec ___     6\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J\nTable XIII.\u2014Distribution of British Columbia Recipients According to the\nA mount of A ssistance Received (Basic Assistance, $75)\n_. . .    _\u00ab__--JW               3.2\nto $69\nto $64\nto $59\nto $54\nln_Tr:               2.7\n1.9\n.____\u25a0 ______nn<fl6l\nln_j4liiod_3i\u00abrt6>\n\"TrY\nto $39\n0.6\n0.6\n0.5\n0.3\nthan$\nT\n0.5\notal\n                   100.0\n> Persons' Allowances\nTable I.\u2014Disposition of Applict\nNew applications received ..\nApplications granted ..\nApplications refused, withdrawn, e\nApplications undecided\t\nTable 11.\u2014Miscellaneous\n(a) British Columbia recipients\u2014\nSuspended _\nReinstated .\nTransferred to other Provinces\t\nReturned to British Columbia\t\nTransferred to Old Age Security ._\nDeaths .\n(b) Other-Province recipients\u2014\nNew transfers to British Columbia -\nRetransferred to British Columbia _\nReinstated\t\nit of British Columbia or suspended _\nTransfers to Old Age Security .\t\nSuspended\t\n(c) Total on payroll at end of fiscal year\u2014\n BRITISH COLUMBIA\nTable III.\u2014Reasons Why Applications Not Granted\nNot blind within the meaning of the Act...\nIncome ir\nApplications withdrawn _\nDied before grant\t\nTable IV.\u2014Sex of New Recipients\nTable V.\u2014Marital Status of New Recipients\nWidowed _\nSeparated .\nTable VI.\u2014Birthplace of New Recipients\nBritish Columbia :\t\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64\nTable VII.\u2014Ages at Granting of Allowance\nAges 19\nto 21\nAges 22 to 30\nAges 31\nto 40\nAges 41\nto 50\nAges 51\nto 60\nAges 61\nto 69\nTable VIII.\u2014Ages of Recipients at Death\nTable IX.\u2014With Whom New Recipients Live\nLiving with parents\t\nLiving alone\t\nLiving with spouse\t\nLiving with spouse and children _\nLiving with children\t\nLiving with other relatives\t\nLiving with others._\t\nTotals\t\n BRITISH COLUMBIA\nTable X.\u2014Where New Recipients Are Living\nT           home\n12\nIn rented house\nr4\nin rented suite\n.2\n'H\nTn hr.\u2122 r>f nthpr rplarivee\n-..\u2022....__ _*\nIn housekeeping room                                                        3\nIn oublic institutions                                                           5\nj- private insfiriirinn<i\n42\nTable XI.\u2014Economic Status of New Recipiei\n(a) Holding real property of value\u2014\n$751 to $1,000\t\n$1,001 to $1,500\t\n$1,501 to $2,000\t\n$2,001 and up\t\nTotals\t\n(b) Holding personal property of value-r-\n$1,501 to $2,000 ..\n$2,001 and up\t\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J 71\nTable XII.\u2014Number of Recipients Living in Other Provinces as at March 31,1964,\nWhose Allowances Are Paid by This Province\n.   ..   2\n.     _   7\nTable XIII.\u2014Distribution of British Columbia Recipients According t\nof Allowances Received (Basic Allowance, $75)\no the Amount\n..    93.8\n1.4\n..     0.7\n1.3\n0.4\n0.5\n0.4\n0.7\n..     0.2\n0.4\n0.2\ng  100.0\n402\n-     1901\n..     235\n$55 rr. $59 99\n$40 rn $44 99\n$35 rr. $39.99\n$30 to $34.99      I\n$75 tr, $79 99\n$70 to $74.99\nTotal\nDisabled Person's\nTable I.\u2014Disposition\nNew applications received\nAllowances\nof Applications\nApplications refused, withdrawn, etc.\n j 72                                                BRITISH COLUMBIA' i\nTable II.\u2014Miscellaneous\n(a) British Columbia recipients\u2014\n    161\nReinstated\n106\n26\n.....     18\n57\n(b) Other-Province recipients\u2014\nSuspended    _                              -\u25a0 -\nNew transfers to British Columbia\nTransferred out of British Columbia or\nReinstated                               ___\n1\n30\nsuspended .....\n3\n(c) Total on payroll at end of fiscal year\u2014\n91\n\u20142,320\nTable III.\u2014Reasons Why Application!\n: Not Granted\n3.4\n2.1\n0.4\n86.0\nMental hospital..                        .   ..\nHospital ....\n'\u25a0%'\n1.7\n0.9\n1.3\n2.6\nNot sufficient residence\nWar Veterans' Allowance\t\nAllowance under Blind Persons Act\n3\n1.3\n0.4\n100.0\nReceiving Old Age Security....\nj\nTotals ._\t\n\t\n OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64\nTable IV.\u2014Primary Causes of Disability on Accepted Cases\nNumber PerO\nInfective and parasitic diseases         9 4\nNeoplasms 3 1\nAllergic, endocrine system, metabolic, and nutritional\ndiseases i  3\nDiseases of blood and blood-forming organs _.\nMental, psychoneurotic, and personality disorderst\u2014\nDiseases of the nervous system and sense organs\t\nDiseases of the circulatory system\t\nDiseases of the respiratory system\t\nDiseases of the digestive system\t\nDiseases of the genito-urinary system\t\nDiseases of the skin and cellular tissues\t\nDiseases of the bones and organs of\nCongenital malformations\nSymptoms, senility, and ill-defined conditions _\nAccidents, poisoning, and violence (nature of injury)-\nTable V.\u2014Sex of New Recipients\nMale ...\n1\nTotals       _:\nTable VI.\u2014Marital Status of New Recipients\nMarried \t\nSingle\t\nWidow\t\nWidower ...\nSeparated .\nDivorced _\n41.6\n100.0\n BRITISH COLUMBIA\nTable VII.\u2014Birthplace of New Recipients\nBritish Columbia\t\nOther parts of Canada\t\nBritish Isles \u2014__\t\nOther parts of British Empire _\nUnited States of America\t\nOther foreign a\nTable VIII.\u2014Ages at Granting of Allowance\nAges 18 to 19 _\nAges 20 to 24 _\nAges 25 to 29 ..\nAges 30 to 34 ..\nAges 35 to 39 ..\nAges 40 to 44 ..\nAges 45 to 49 ..\nAges 50 to 54\nAges 55 to 59 ..\nTable IX.\u2014Ages of Recipients at Death\nAges 30 to 34 ..\nAges 35 to 39 ..\nAges 40 to 44 ..\nAges 60 to 64 ..\nAges 65 to 69 ..\nAges over 70...\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64\nTable X.\u2014With Whom Recipients __ve.IV\/. _\\A\u00bb\nLiving with parents _       99, 52\nLiving alone I ; _ .15 7\nLiving with spouse i\u2014~       34 17\nLiving with spouse and children          8 4\nLiving with children s l :.        3 1\nLiving with other relatives ! G^--\u2014       19 10\nLiving with others . ~ _  QQ0,_$ (    IG_? *>\nTable XI.\u2014Where New Recipients Are Living\nTn p^r^tits' hornp'\"^ 7J\"* *C\" \"\"'\" !\"i'~ ''v' '\u2022>'\n  .       99\n52.1\nIn own house            . .                   \t\n         23\n12.1\n12;\n6.3\n15\n7.9\n2.1\nTn children's home\n4\n17\n8.9\n4 r_HM\n3.7\nTn boarding home\n5r;-\n2.6\n2.6\nTotals\n      190\n100.0\nTable XII.\u2014Economic Status of New Recipients\n(a) Holding real property of value\u2014\nNumber\nPercent\n:'.'                       $0\n16_\\!\n85.3\n _rf~        $1 tn $250\n1\n0.5\n$251 to $500\n0.5\n$501 to $750\n0.5\n$751 to $1,000\n-.0          $1,001 to $1,500\n$1,501 to $7,000\n$2,001 and up\nI4V\"\n7.4\nTotals\n.     190\n100.0\n e BRITISH COLUMBIA\nTable XII.\u2014Economic Status of New Recipients\u2014Continued\n(b) Holding personal property of value-\n126\n66.3\n$1 to $250\n$251 to $500                   . ...\n$501 to $750\n34\n6\n<\u2022      . .          9\n          1\n17.9\n3.2\n4.7\n0.5\n6\n3.2\n1\n0.5\n$2,001 and up,\n7\n190\n3.7\n100.0\n6\n7\n8\nYnlrnn                                                                                                                                              1\nE      Total\n33\nTable XIV.\u2014Distribution of British Columbia Recipients According to the\nAmount of Allowance Received (Basic Allowance, $75)\n$70 to $74\n991\n$65 to $69\n99\n$60 to $64\n99\n$55 to $59\n99\n$50 to $54\n99\n$45 to $49\n99\n$40 to $44\n99\n$35 to $39\n99\n$30 to $34\n9.9--. -\n$25 to $29\n99'\n$20 to $24\n99\n$19.99 and\nT\nless\nOtal .\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J 77\nGeneral Information re Old Age Security Category\nDisposition of Applications\nNew applications received\t\nReapplications received\t\nApplications granted \u2014\u2014\nApplications not granted (refused, withdrawn, dead, f\n. 776\nTotal Number in Receipt of Supplementary Social Allowance\nas at March 31,1964\nBritish Columbia cases 23,639\nOther-Province cases .       756\nTotal , 24,395\nDistribution According to Five-year Intervals of Birth Year of Married and Single\nSupplementary Social Allowance Recipients (70 Years of Age and over) on\nPay-list as at March 31, 1964 (Includes Other-Province Recipients of Supplementary Assistance Living in British Columbia).\nCONCLUSION\nIn concluding this report the Board wishes to express its sincere appreciation\nfor the loyal and efficient work of the office and field staffs throughout the year and\nfor the continued co-operation of other departments of Government and many\noutside agencies.\n BRITISH COLUMBIA' '\nPART IV.\u2014INSTITUTIONS\nBRANNAN LAKE SCHOOL FOR BOYS\nF. G. Hassard, Superintendent\nI beg to submit the annual report for the Brannan Lake School for Boys for\nthe period ended March 31, 1964.\nThe following table shows the statistics for the fiscal years 1954\/55 to\n1963\/64:\u2014\nBscalYear\n1\n8\nl\n1\nl\n1\nj\n2\ni\ni\nNumber in Crease Clinic, April lst_\nNumber in Provincial Mental Hospi-\n'_\n139\n129\nM\n164\n162\nl\ni\n3\n190\nSjmb_ on P__e! April _______\nm\n|\n~1_\nl\nl\nj\n_g\ni\u00a7_li\u00ab\u00a3\u00a7\u00ab\n1\n=__\n\t\nIZZ\na__\u00a3 l,\",^ho\u00b01;,M\u00b0_13Ist\t\n3f\n5f\n\"I\nj\nP\n193\n___S_S__5 _J__^__\n66,\u00ab)6\nDuring the fiscal year there were 357 admissions and 103 recidivists, making\na total of 460 admitted to the School. There was a 22.4 percentage rate of recidivism. Seventeen of the recidivists were committed for the third time and eight for\nthe fourth time. Three hundred and fourteen of the boys admitted were Protestant,\n142 Roman Catholic, and 4 of other religion. Seventy of the total number of boys\nadmitted during the year were of native Indian status.\nRange of Age upon Admission\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64\nSupervising Agencies of Boys Admitted\nProvincial Probation Branch\t\nDepartment of Social Welfare ..._\t\nIndian Department\t\nVancouver Probation Service\t\nVictoria Family and Chidren's Court..\nChildren's Aid Society ..\nCatholic Children's Aid Society _\nFamily and Children's Service ....\nNew Westminster Police\t\nProvince of Alberta _\nProvincial Probation Branch and Indian Department\t\nProvincial Probation Branch and Department of Social Welfare _\n3\nOf this number, 35 were wards of the Superintendent of Child Welfare, 10 of\nthe Family and Children's Service, 6 of the Children's Aid Society, 3 of the Catholic\nChildren's Aid Society, and 1 of the Province of Alberta.\nFour hundred and sixty boys were committed from the following Juvenile\nCourts and 12 boys were held on remand:\u2014\nHazplton\nArmstrong\nAshcroft\nKamloops\nBella Coola\nKaslo\nCampbell River\t\nKimberley\nLangley .\nChemainus\nfTiilliwarlc\nMasse.t\nCloverdale\t\n26\nMatsqui\t\nGolwood \t\nMerritt ....\nMission City\nNanaimo\nCourtenay\nCranbrnolc\nNelson\nfYestnn            w 3VOCJ 1\nNew Westminster\nCumberland\t\n* I   ____, Vancouver .       .    .\nDuncan\nPenticton\nFort St. James.\nPort Moody\nFort St  John-\": \u2014\u00bb\nPrince npnrgp.                      r\nPrince Rnpftrt\nQualicum Beach    ' w*w n\u00bb\nGrand ForRs ...\n '\/BRITISH COLUMBIA :;\nQueen Charlotte City     1 Squarmsh   4\nQuesnel 3 Summerland     1\nRevelstoke 6 Terrace .\u2014 \u2014    3\nRichmond 10 Trail      2\nSalmon Arm     1 Vancouver .\u2014   69\nSechelt   3 Vanderhoof     4\nSmithers 3 Vernon       1\nSooke  2 Victoria   51\nSpences Bridge     1 West Vancouver     2\nOf the 460 boys committed to the School during the year, 353 were committed\nfor offence against property, 22 against persons, and 85 for other offences which included incorrigibility.\nOf the 357 new admissions during the year, 51 of the boys were never tried on\nprobation but were committed to the School on their first appearance before the\nCourt.\nThere were 410 boys released from the School during the year.   The average\nlength of stay of boys in the School was 5.3 months.\nSeventy-six boys accounted for the 117 A.W.O.L.s.   The difference between\nthe figures is due to the fact that some of the same boys went A.W.O.L. two or more\ntimes during the year.\nSeven hundred and twelve individual boys were worked with in the School\nduring the fiscal year.\nMEDICAL AND DENTAL TREATMENT\nFillings 1 947\nPartial dentures \u25a0. ;___ _ ;'  ' '    1.1\nComplete upper dentures _ :  2\nComplete lower dentures .    . I L  2\nDenture reline ! _  1\nDentures repaired ___. !  10\nProphylaxis  !     '    ' '  5\nRoot canal fillings    6\nTrimming  1\nScaling . \" 'j^ j  5\nOne hundred and ninety-two boys received the above dental care.\nThis spring we had an influenza epidemic, and 109 boys were hospitalized at\nour School; some were really quite ill.  I am glad to say there were no complications.\nFour hundred and sixty-six boys had admittance physical examinations, as\nagainst 411 last year.\nFour hundred and -forty-one boys were tuberculin-tested; of these, 46 were\npositive.   However, X-rays revealed no active tuberculosis.\nOne hundred and twenty-two boys had oral polio vaccine in November. The\nusual large number of boys was treated for minor ailments and accidents; these\nwere kept on record.   \u2022\nThere were two cases of staphylococcal pneumonia, one chronic nephritis, one\nrheumatic fever, two operations for archedopeny and inguinal hernia, three tonsillectomies, and one appendectomy.\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64\nFINANCIAL STATEMENT, 1963\/64\nTravelling expense __..,,, _v\/ \u25a0\u25a0\u2014. -.  144\nOffice furniture and equipment  85\nHeat, light, power, and water _ 27,532\nMedical and dental services . . r  12,074\nClothing and uniforms .  15,034\nProvisions and catering  62,945\nLaundry and dry-goods  13,784\nEquipment and machinery _ !\u20142___  822\nMedical supplies -.    . .   :  !.942\nMaintenance of buildings and grounds _.__2_H__  6,257\nMaintenance and operation of equipment  2,874\nTransportation :>_jM\u00bbt*-  5,833\nI Motor-vehicles and accessories  2,173\nIncidentals and contingencies I  3,901\nRepairs to furnishings and equipment .  424\nTraining programme expense ,   4,817\nLess-\n$463,395\n$7,776\n3,245\n219\nLess increase in inventory\u2014\nInventory at March 31, 1964\nInventory at March 31, 1963\nAdd Public Works p.xpenditiirft\n        5,690\n$16,607\n13,049\n        3,558\n$454,147\n$56,939\n      56,027\nPer capita cost per diem: $510,174-^66,0O6=$7.73.\nReconciliation\nNet expenditure as per Public Accounts $443,348\nAdd\u2014\nMaintenance receipts $3,473\nSalary adjustments     10,884\nPublic Works expenditure  $56,939\nLess rentals 912\n    56,027\n      70,384\n _ BRITISH COLUMBIA\nAs in the past few years, large numbers of boys assisted service clubs with\ninity projects, including cleaning up of old cemeteries and church grounds,\nbeaches, and parks.\nAs in previous years, a large number of toys were renovated and repaired by\nboys of the School and taken to the Salvation Army for distribution with their\nChristmas hampers.\nVarious service clubs in turn made arrangements for large groups of boys from\nthe School to take part in local entertainment.\nThe forest nursery has been expanded, and clearing has been commenced on\nan additional 3 acres of land which will be used to expand both the nursery project\nand our vegetable garden.\nWe have had a large number of visitors during the year\u2014representatives of\nteacher counsellor groups, members of the ministerial association, and persons from\nother Provinces who are working in the correctional field.\nWe have continued to enjoy the closest co-operation and help from the various\nchurch and service club groups of Nanaimo, also civic authorities and the Royal\nCanadian Mounted Police.\nI wish to thank clergymen, service clubs, civic officials, members of both the\nFederal and Provincial departments of Government, including the Royal Canadian\nMounted Police, private agencies, and School staff members who have assisted in\nthe rehabilitation of boys. Their assistance has been appreciated by the School\nadministration.\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OJfeSQ.CpAL WELFARE, 1963\/64\nW1LLBNGDON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS\nMiss Winnifred M. Urquhart, Superintendent\nI am pleased to submit the annual report for the Willingdon School for Girls\nfor the fiscal year ended March 1, 1964. March 1, 1964, marked the 50th anniversary of the opening of British Columbia's first Provincial training-school for delinquent girls. During this half-century since the first girl was committed at the\nage of 14 for a term of seven years, more for protection than correction, many\nchanges have taken place in the Province's programme for the care of children who\ncome before the Court.\nThe following tables show the movement of population, age range, charges,\nand Courts from which the girls were sentenced during the year:\u2014\nFiscalYear\nj\n|\n1\n|\n1\n1\n!\ng\ni\ns\n1\nNu br jjj _rtnoI _ ifj jnj\n~\n2\n\u00a3\n__!\n___\n|\ni\n1\n87\nNumber in Oakalla, April 1st-\t\ni\nj\n\t\nNumber of new admissions\t\n47\nI\n_ii\njj\n304'\nSgS^S^iis:\n^r\" ?_,Pr0bati0Dary re,MSe'\n^^__f\u00a3!rtoClal Mental H\u00b0SPi\"\nr'\"'\"' ''\"   h \u25a0' ;,\"-h ''  \u2014\n868T\nTo_llew!oX.1_to6fccS0y_?i-\nK_\nRange of Age upon Admission\nCharges were as fol\nUnmanageability _\nBreach of probatioi\nTheft ..\nInfraction of liquor laws\t\nUnlawful possession of liquc\nSexual immorality\t\n BRITISH COLUMBIA\nVagrancy\t\nBreaking and entering _\u2014!\u2014-\nPossession of stolen goods ;\t\nCreating disturbance in a public place _\nWilful damage 1\u2014\nTotal-\ne committed from the following Juvenile Courts:\u2014\nAlberni  1 Merrirt  2\nAlert Bay  12 Nanaimo  1\nBurnaby  8 New Westminster  1\nChemainus  1 North Vancouver  5\nChilliwack  1 Port Coquitlam  1\nCloverdale  1 Port Moody  1\nCranbrook  2 Port Alberni  1\nDawson Creek  5 Powell River  2\nDuncan  4 Prince George  2\nFort St. James :  2 Prince Rupert  7\nFort St. John  3 Sechelt j  2\nHazelton \u25a0 .... 2 Smithers  1\nInvermere  2 Squamish  1\nKimberley  1 Terrace  2\nKitimat  1 Trail  2\nLadner  1 Vancouver !  22\nLytton  3 Vernon J  1\nMasset 1 .  1 Victoria.  7\nMatsqui ,  3 Williams Lake  2\nA slight increase is noted in most areas. Although the average daily population has only risen 6.7 per cent, there were periods during the year when all cottage-\nwere filled to capacity. The average length of stay has shortened by almost two\nmonths, which may or may not be particularly significant as it can be affected by\neither a very short or long stay of one or two girls, but the drop is in keeping with\nthe general trend in teaining-schools and perhaps bespeaks an increase in the casework services to families and the teen-agers by the community agencies.\nThe percentage of recidivism about doubled over the all-time low of last year,\nbut at 12.8 per cent is still low for a training-school. The new training-school legislation making a provisional release legal is gradually proving valuable as it makes\npossible the use of the school by the agencies as a deterrent by providing short return\nperiods for the girls who require one or two sharp reminders of controls to help\nthem in their full rehabilitation.\nThe school programme has continued with only minor changes during this year.\nEvery effort is made to provide activities to broaden the girls' outlook and stimulate\ntheir desire for further training. The regular academic, hairdressing, and sewing\nclasses have continued to provide excellent training. The extra courses, which the\ngirls attend in their free time on a voluntary basis, have continued to be very popular.\nThis year we added a course in baby-sitting and started issuing wallet-size certificates\nto all who completed both the waitress course and baby-sitting course.   St. John\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J 85\nAmbulance first-aid and home-nursing courses give valuable training. We are\nfortunate to have capable instructors among our cottage supervisors who are able\nand willing to provide these courses as part of their daily work. The physical education programme is always popular, and is also used as a medium to help the self-\nconscious girl find her skills and finally be able to participate with the crowd. The\nannual gymnasium and swimming display was held in May, with a capacity audience.\nRed Cross swirnrning awards and Royal life-saving bronze medallions and awards\nare still keenly strived for and earned through a stiff examination after much hard\nwork. A total of 104 swimming awards was received during the year. It is most\nheartening to see girls who, when they arrived at the school, could not care less about\nachievement and leave having earned by their own efforts credits in a variety of\nThe staff has remained as stable as in former years. There was a change in the\nelementary-school teacher, and one social worker was transferred in November to\nanother division and not replaced during this year.\nThe health of the girls has continued to be good, with only minor illnesses.\nA survey examination of all the girls to determine necessary dental work was carried\nout by Dr. Conchie, Public Health Director of Dental Services, through Dr. P. W.\nLaundy, Department Medical Director. It was agreed that, for the most part, we\nshould only be providing an emergency service plus dental work and dentures which,\nfor health and cosmetic reasons, would help in the rehabilitation of the girl. The\nCambie Clinic and Dr. T. C. MacKenzie still provide excellent service. We have\ncontinued to receive psychiatric services from the mental health clinic. We were\nsorry a change in psychiatrist was necessary when Dr. Menzies went into private\npractice, because over the years he had become familiar with all the staff and the\nprogramme and was providing a valuable service to the School. This service was\nsomewhat curtailed for several months until another psychiatrist, Dr. Davis, could\nbe appointed, and it took him a little while to learn and appreciate the type of programme required.\nOur volunteer friends still continue to work with us, providing a valuable\nservice and adding much to our programme, both in entertainment and religious\nguidance. It would be impossible to provide as varied and well balanced a programme without their co-operation. I take this opportunity, without naming them\nindividually, to express our sincere gratitude to all our volunteers for the many\nfavours and hours given for our girls.\nCommunity groups have continued to visit the School, and approximately 50\nhours of senior-staff time was spent during the year speaking to and showing these\nvisitors around. In October the Elizabeth Fry Society held one of its larger meetings\nat the School, and a light luncheon was served, consisting of fancy sandwiches made\nby a group of the girls who had received instruction over a period of weeks from one\nof the staff in the art of sandwich-making.\nI take this opportunity to express my appreciation to all senior administration\nand all members of our staff and others who have assisted and co-operated in the\noperation of the School during the year.\n 6 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nFINANCIAL STATEMENT, 1963\/64\nSalaries        $206,050\nOffice expense    jy>q _ vrsutoo ___ \u2022  1,90,3\nTravelling expense L_li\u2014_\u00a3_____\u2014I\u2014  1,317\nOffice furniture and equipment 'J2t\u2014___\u00a3______ ____\u2014 644\nHeat, light, power, and water                              : onr. mu 25,260\nMedical and dental services                                    - E-'i.ti 3,915\nClothing and uniforms !   .\u2014j=J 6,087\nProvisions and catering  '.  g-l:\"''n !_!  39,925\nLaundry and dry-goods _:____Ii___ _____-- 409\nGood Conduct Fund                ..  1,717\nEquipment and machinery  865\nMedical supplies ...   1,989\nMaintenance of buildings and grounds  2,470\nMaintenance and operation of equipment  1,491\nTransportation  2,822\nVocational and recreational supplies J  2,619\n$1,536\n2,160\n        3,696\n$295,867\nAdd decrease in inventory\u2014\nInventory at March 31, 1963 _. $10,030\nInventory at March 31, 1964 _|      9,672\n       $358\nPublic Works expenditure     33,916\n       34,274\n$330,141\nPer capita cost per diem: $330,141-=-31,735=$10.40.\nReconciliation\nNet expenditure as per Public Accounts  $288,058\nAdd\u2014\nMaintenance receipts $1,293\nSalary adjust!\nDecrease in inventory ..\nPublic Works expenditu\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64\nPROVINCIAL HOME, KAMLOOPS\nG. P. Willie, Superintendent\nThe following is the annual report for the Provincial Home for the Aged and\nInfirm, Kamloops, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1964.\nFrom this report it is noted a rise in the per capita cost of 53 cents, due to\nlesser inmate-days by 3,272, and a rise in expenditures of $8,072. During the year\n76 applicants were admitted, 37 took leave of absence or a discharge, and 42 residents expired, showing a loss of 3.\nImprovements for the comfort of our residents consist of both maintenance\nand equipment. The painters redecorated the poolroom, music-room, main entrance and lower corridors, and the hallways of Wards 1, 10, and 11. Our drug-\nsupply room was completely remodelled. A new freezing unit was installed for the\nwalk-in cooler. Water and waste lines were replaced in Wards 1, 10, and 11.\nHostess chairs and high-back rockers are being tried and are very popular. Individual lawn chairs for outdoor comfort are available.\nPhysiotherapy at the Home has been introduced, with the physiotherapist from\nCARS administering regularly. The location is in the basement, and this is practical, comfortable, and convenient. Presently there are seven therapy tables.\nEquipment consists of two walkers, one with crutch attachments, a quadriceps boot\nwith bar and collars, with weights from one-quarter to 10 pounds, head halter with\nspreader bar and Zimmer aqua-trac bag, and two infra-red lamps. This therapy is\ncontrolled by doctors' orders.\nMedical services continue to be supplied by the Irving Clinic, along with\nspecialists outside its clinic. City hospital services are used when necessary.\nIn our hospital ward, stainless-steel equipment has been added, plus two triple-\ntop bedside cabinets. An exhaust fan has been installed, which helps control\ntemperature.\nProtection against fire-hazards is constantly studied. The City of Kamloops\nFire Chief and the fire prevention officer make regular inspections, and also hold\nfire drills.\nEntertainment for the residents has been varied, with television most popular.\nThe religious denominations also fulfil a great need for the men. Outside organizations continue to supply many happy hours.\nFour aged men were transferred from Essondale and have taken to the Home\nquite nicely, applying themselves to available services.\nWe contihuallly strive to help patients to help themselves\u2014to get them up and\nout of bed daily, dressed, and fully groomed whenever physically possible, also to\ntake them out of their rooms to the sitting-rooms or, when warm enough, outside\non the verandahs and lawns.\nSome experts indicate that the elderly are robbed of their dignity and identity\nin institutions, but we strive to restore this by helpful care and understanding, having them work and help in certain areas, encouraging variety in clothing, creating\noutlets of recreation, proving old people are real people, thus indicating a continued\nusefulness in society for institutions.\nWe will continue to have the problem of an ageing population and of finding\nthe best way to care for our ageing citizens, so we must find the best kind of\nfacilities and the proper level to meet their needs.\nI wish to thank all who have assisted in the operation of the Home and the\ncare of our residents during the past year.\n BRITISH COLUMBIA\nINMATE-DAYS\nInmates in the Home, April 1, 1963 _\nInmates admitted during the year \u2014_\nFINANCIAL STATEMENT, 1963\/64\nSalaries $113,683\nOffice expense  576\nMedical services  9,966\nClothing and uniforms  4,040\nProvisions and catering  29,415\nLaundry and dry-goods  6,821\nEquipment and machinery  1,527\nMedical supplies .  3,676\nMaintenance of buildings and grounds  965\nMaintenance and operation of equipment  455\nTransportation  1,199\nBurials :  4,200\nIncidentals and contingencies  2,024\nRentals ..\nAdd Public Works expenditi\nPer capita cost per diem: $186,082-M0,375=$4.61.\nPensions paid to Government Agent, Kamloops, $90,832.\n F THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64\nReconciliation\nNet expenditure as per Public Accounts I\nAdd\u2014\nMaintenance receipts\u2014\nTransfers  from  Provincial  Home  Trust\nAccount     14,438\nReceipts from Government of Canada\nunder the Unemployment Assistance\nAgreement      43,773\nSalary adjustments       5,268\nAdd Public Works expenditure\t\nAdd proportion of excess of receipts over disbursements\nfor Tranquille Farm\t\nLess pensioners' comforts I\n j 90 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nWELFARE mSTITUT-ONS BOARD\nA. A. Shipp, Chief Inspector of Welfare Institutions\nI submit herewith the annual report of the Welfare Institutions Licensing Act\nfor the year 1963.   As licences are issued on the basis of the calendar year, this\nreport covers the period from January 1, 1963, to December 31, 1963.\nLICENCES\nA total of 892 licences was issued during the year, of which 746 were renewals\nand 146 were new licences. Eighty licensed homes either closed or changed ownership, requiring new licensing. There were 244 new applications, and 236 pending\napplications were closed, these consisting of approved licences and licences refused\nor applications withdrawn. Case load at December 31, 1963, totalled 1,022, of\nwhich 812 were licensed institutions and 210 files pending.\nBOARD MEETINGS\nEleven regular meetings and three special meetings of the Welfare Institutions\nBoard were held during the year.\nWELFARE INSTITUTIONS FOR CHILDREN\nA. Full-time Care of Children\nInstitutions for Child-care\nThere was no change in the number or function of these institutions during\nthe year.\nNumber of institutions licensed in 1963  9\nNumber of children cared for        306\nTotal days' care        65,657\nPrivate Boarding Homes\nLicensing of private boarding homes for children continues to be carried on\nwith the co-operation of the two Children's Aid Societies in Vancouver and the\nFamily and Children's Service in Victoria. There are very few commercially\noperated boarding homes throughout the rest of the Province, and these are supervised by the Department of Social Welfare.\nNumber of children's boarding homes licensed in 1963  19\nNumber of children cared for . .         55\nTotal days' care 10,664\nB. Day Care of Children\nFoster Day Care\nThe majority of foster day-care homes in the City of Vancouver are supervised\nby the Child Care Centre, but a few are still visited and inspected by this Department.\nIn an effort to establish one standard of inspection, we are working closely with both\nthe agency and the foster day-care mothers to have them all accept the Child Care\nCentre as the supervising agency.\nNumber of foster day-care homes licensed in 1963  33\nNumber of children cared for        192\nTotal days' care  ..... 15,529\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J 91\nKindergartens, Play-schools, etc.\nThere is a continuing increase in the number of both privately operated and\nco-operative kindergartens throughout the Province, despite the fact that many\nkindergartens are now operating in the public schools.\nThe majority of kindergarten supervisors are now fully qualified, or in process\nof taking the required courses for qualification.\nNumber of pre-school centres licensed in 1963  311\nNumber of children registered 1 i  \u2014       15,720\nTotal days' care  1,349,595\nSchools for Retarded Children\nThree new licences were issued during the year, and one licence was cancelled\nwhen there were no longer enough children to operate the school.\nNumber of schools licensed in 1963  30\nNumber of children registered  !        610\nTotal days' care 81,576\nMATERNITY HOMES\nThere was no change in the status or programme of the three maternity homes\nserving the Province.\nNumber of homes licensed in 1963  3\nNumber of mothers cared for        433\nTotal days' care 26,049\nAGED-CARE\nThe number of boarding homes for elderly persons continues to increase\nrapidly, but we are now noticing a trend toward new construction for these homes\nrather than the conversion of older-type dwellings.\nThere was an increase of 37 licences issued over the previous year, and we\nbelieve we have now taken care of practically all those homes which were brought\nwithin the scope of the legislation in 1961.\nNumber of homes licensed during 1963  325\nNumber of persons cared for . 6,776\nTotal days' care 1,481,205\nUNEMPLOYED ADULTS\nThere was no change in the number or function of these institutions during the\nyear.\nNumber of homes licensed during 1963  6\nNumber of persons cared for 16,349\nTotal days' care 46,201\nPROVINCIAL MENTAL HOSPITAL DISCHARGEES\nThis programme continues to develop, with the majority of the former patients\nliving in boarding homes with other types of guests. A member of the Mental\nHealth Services staff is attached to this office to co-ordinate the work of the two\ndepartments.\n J 92 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nThe figures shown are those for the homes which are licensed specifically for\nthis purpose.\nNumber of homes licensed during 1963  5\nNumber of persons cared for \u2014__ 37\nTotal days' care ___ 11,410\nSUMMER CAMPS\nOwing to poor weather conditions, many camps did not have as many enrolled\nas in previous years. In spite of this, however, there was an over-all increase in the\nnumber of summer camps licensed and the number attending. Total camping-days,\nhowever, showed a considerable decrease, due largely to the fact that children who\nmight normally stay for two or more sessions remained for only a single camping\nNumber of summer camps licensed in 1963  93\nNumber of persons attending 29,106\nNumber of attendance days 236,768\nCONCLUSION\ni extended to all who helped with the\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J 93\nSTATISTICAL INFORMATION\nTable I.\u2014Showing a Comparative Summary of Information Regarding\nLicensed Welfare Institutions\n BRITISH COLUMBIA\nTable II.\u2014Case Load Showing the Total Number of Licensed\nInstitutions and Pending Applications, 1963\nJESS \u2014 I |     I     1     1\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE 1963\/64\nPART V_=I|i_K_AL WORK SERVICES\nDIVISION OF TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL AND\nPEARSON POLIOMYELITIS PAVILION\nMrs. M. Titterington, Supervisor\nIn last year's annual report it was mentioned that the decline in tuberculosis\nmortality and morbidity rates had levelled off, and it is significant that WHO has\nnamed as slogan for next World Health Day, April 7, 1964, \" No truce for TB.\"\nWhile it is 20 years since the discovery or the first of the effective anti-tuberculosis\ndrugs, there are still more than 2 million new cases of tuberculosis a year and\ndeaths still number between 1 and 2 million annually. Naturally the greatest\nnumber is in the densely populated areas of the world where there is poor nutrition,\npoor sanitation, and overcrowding, but it is stated by the experts that the highly\ndeveloped, less densely populated countries are farther from conquest than some\nthink. No country has reached the recognized standard of control established by\nWHO; that is, when a country can report that not more than 1 per cent of the\nchildren reaching 14 years of age have been infected by tubercle bacilli, the country\nwill have control of tuberculosis but still be a long way from eradicating it. In\nBritish Columbia 4.7 per cent of 14-year-olds tested have a positive skin test.\nHighlights from the report of the Director of the Division of Tuberculosis\nControl for the calendar year 1963 are as follows:\u2014\n(1) Known cases of tuberculosis excluding Indians, about 16,000, of which\nabout 15,000 are inactive, but among which there is a high rate of breakdown (one-half to 1 per cent break down annually and require further\ntreatment).\n(2) Known cases of Indians, about 4,800, of which slightly over 4,000 are\ninactive (treatment and supervision are under the Medical Services Directorate of the Department of National Health and Welfare).\n(3) Number of new cases of tuberculosis: (_) Pulmonary, 476; (b) non-\npulmonary, 105; total, 581.\n(4) Number of admissions to Willow Chest Centre and Pearson Hospital,\nexcluding polio and excluding review cases and transfers, 384, of which\n275 were first admissions and 109 readmissions. Of the achriissions,\nnearly 51 per cent were over 50 years of age, and of the patients in\nhospital, 59 per cent were over 50 years of age. Of this group, 87 per\ncent were male and only 13 per cent female. Of the total sanatoria\npopulation, 79 per cent were males and only 21 per cent females.\n(5) Number of discharges, 391 (plus 41 deaths). Forty-four discharges were\nagainst medical advice and two were disciplinary discharges.\n(6) The active-case register, which includes all cases classified as active and\nquiescent, all those inactive less than two years, as well as all cases on\nanti-microbial therapy and all cases that are suspect, had about 2,000\ncases. Over 1,000 of these were patients on anti-microbial therapy\noutside of hospital. All these cases are closely supervised, which makes\nit possible for treatment to be continued outside of an institution.  \"\ntti al^fnAbout 20 per cent of the people in British Columbia have been infected\nwith tubercle bacillus, and it is established that 5 per cent of these (or\nabout 20,000 people) will develop active tuberculosis sometime during\ntheir lifetime if present trends c\n J 96 BRITISH COLUMBIA\n(8) Prince Rupert and Terrace are areas of high incidence in British Columbia\nand have been given special attention by the Mobile Surveys and Travelling Clinic.\nBecause of the higher percentage of susceptible people, there appears to be an\nincreased danger from the undiagnosed case of tuberculosis. As B.C.G. vaccination\nonly gives protection for a limited period\u2014about two years; it is not practical to\nvaccinate all people who have negative tuberculin tests unless it is known that they\nare going to be exposed to active tuberculosis. However, some individuals who\nhave had negative skin tests and then convert to positive, due to exposure to an\nactive case, may be treated with anti-microbial drugs as a prophylactic measure.\nThere are many problems to be worked out regarding preventive measures, including\nthe use of B.C.G. and prophylactic chemotherapy. Drug-resistant infections, as well\nas resistant people, add to the problems. Good nutrition and adequate housing are\nstill important in the control of tuberculosis.\nIn a drive for detection of active cases and for prevention, the British Columbia\nTuberculosis Society, in co-operation with the Division of Tuberculosis Control, has\nbeen conducting a massive \" Operation Doorstep \" survey in Vancouver, and indications are that over 200,000 people will be tested. While the survey has not been\ncompleted as of March 31st, over 100 cases of tuberculosis had been found, the\nmajority of which required treatment. In addition, there were a number of suspects.\nMany other chest conditions are being discovered, such as lung cancer, significant\nheart conditions, Hodgkin's disease, bronchiectasis, and emphysema.\nThere were no new poliomyelitis cases admitted in the past fiscal year. Three\npatients were discharged to home care, with the co-operation of many agencies,\nincluding the British Columbia Poliomyelitis and Rehabilitation Foundation, and\nwith the provision of adequate equipment. Other patients have periods at home\nwhen their families are able to care for them for short intervals. A few could\nprobably be discharged to home care if their f amilies had not lost interest. However,\ncare of a paraplegic patient is a heavy burden and must be shared with hospital\nauthorities, even in cases where the families enjoy having the patient home. There\nare, of course, many patients who could not be discharged.\nAs fewer beds are required for the treatment of cases of tuberculosis, the\ndecision was made this year that Provincial Infirmaries patients would be transferred\nto Pearson Hospital when the necessary structural changes could be made. Since\nthe public announcement there have been constant inquiries, and an Admissions\nCommittee has been set up to screen and evaluate applications. The Social Service\nDepartment is represented on this Committee.\nThe Social Service Department had 1,838 interviews with over 500 patients\nand their families, as well as 3,874 interviews with other professional staff and\ncommunity agencies on their behalf. The problems presented involved family\ncounselling, foster-home care of children, housekeeper or homemaker service, personality problems, psychiatric consultation, discharge planning, particularly with\ngeriatric and paraplegic patients, legal aid, and the administration of funds for\nelderly and other patients incapable of handling their own funds. The Social Service\nDepartment also endeavours to interest patients in the use of educational facilities\nand rehabilitation resources when these are essential to their future adjustment.\nSometimes the role is that of emotional support to help the patient remain in\nhospital until medically discharged or to face surgery. At other times it is emotional\nsupport over a critical period when husband or wife deserts and the patient finds it\nhard to face life alone.\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64        J 97\nSeventy-one tuberculosis patients and 12 poliomyelitis patients received comforts allowances for varying periods of time. These allowances totalled $4,455.25,\nless a few refunds. In addition, the British Columbia Tuberculosis Society, the\nBritish Columbia Poliomyelitis and Rehabilitation Foundation, and the Municipal\nChapter of the I.O.D.E. granted funds for special needs throughout the year, and\nother groups granted assistance at Christmas.\nStaff members have assisted again in the educational programme of the nursing\nstudents that come to the Division for the tuberculosis affiliation programme, as\nwell as other special students who were assigned to Pearson Hospital or Willow\nChest Centre from time to time.\nI wish to thank the agencies and groups who have helped financially throughout\nthe fiscal year, as well as express my appreciation for the co-operation extended by\nthe private and Governmental agencies in helping our patients.\n j 98 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nPART VI.\u2014ACCOUNTING DIVISION\nJ. McDiarmid, Departmental Comptroller\nThe gross expenditure by the Department of Social Welfare in each of the fiscal\nyears 1961\/62 and 1962\/63 was approximately $56,000,000. However, in the\nfiscal year 1963\/64 the gross expenditure of the Department of Social Welfare\nincreased by $3,245,900 over that in 1962\/63 to $59,216,400. The services and\nallowances provided by the Department's expenditure of $59,216,400 during the\nfiscal year 1963\/64 are detailed by the various divisions of the Department of Social\nWelfare within the Annual Report; however, this report of the Accounting Division\nwill include a table of expenditures and related services for the whole Department.\nThe first three sections of the expenditure table covered by the service headings\n\"Administration,'' \"Institutions,\" and \"Field service\" have varied very little in\nrelation to percentage of gross welfare expenditure as shown in the previous fiscal\nyear; however, dollarwise these sections show a rise in spending of $254,000. The\nmain reasons for this rise were an upward revision of salaries, amounting to\n$107,756, and the provision of additional staff and resulting expenses.\nThe largest increase in expenditure for a main service was for maintenance of\ndependent children. The increase was $620,500 or 14.5 per cent, and was due to\nthe greater number of children placed in foster homes, despite the fact that the\nnumber of children placed for adoption was up also. The total number of paid\ndays' care in foster homes amounted to 1,724,773, or an increase of 15 per cent\nover the previous fiscal year.\nThe section \" Medical services, drugs, optical, etc.\", has increased $354,200\nover the fiscal year 1962\/63. From a review of this section of expenditures it is\nfound that purchase of drugs accounts for approximately two-thirds of the increase.\nThe service \" Social Allowances, etc.,\" has increased $1,370,000 over the fiscal\nyear 1962\/63, giving a total gross expenditure of $29,614,100. This section of\nwelfare expenditure provides for assistance to needy persons not covered by Old-age\nAssistance, Blind or Disabled Allowances, or Child welfare programmes. Social\nAllowance is largely administered by the Provincial and municipal offices provided\nthroughout the Province.\nOld-age Assistance, Blind Persons' Allowances, Disabled Persons' Allowances,\nand Supplementary Social Allowances for the aged and handicapped have increased\nin expenditure over the fiscal year 1962\/63 by $644,200. The increase is largely\ndue to increased rates paid to pensioners under legislation and regulations governing\nOld-age Assistance, Blind and Disabled Allowances.\n REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963\/64 J 99\nUnder the Unemployment Assistance Agreement with the Federal Government,\nthe Provincial Welfare Accounting Division during the fiscal year 1963\/64 has\nprepared claims and received reimbursement of sums in excess of $16,000,000. We\nhave found the Federal Government auditors to be both helpful and co-operative in\nassisting the Division.\nAs of January 1, 1963, an arrangement was made with the Indian Affairs\nBranch of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration whereby assistance was\ngranted to Indians living off the reserve but who had not established residence\noutside the reserve. This arrangement involved a number of meetings and discussions with the committee representing the Federal and Provincial Governments.\nPayments to Indians are now made by the field offices and reimbursement is obtained\nfrom the Federal Government by the Accounting Division.\nThe Comptroller, with the Superintendent of Child Welfare, met with the\ndirectors of the Vancouver Children's Aid Society, the Vancouver Catholic Children's Aid Society, and the Victoria Family and Children's Service, and the Vancouver Community Chest and Victoria Community Chest, to discuss budgets for the\nfollowing fiscal year. The societies presented excellent and detailed budgets which\nformed the basis of the societies' current-year operations.\nThe Payroll Section of the Accounting Division has met the change of pay\nfrom once a month to twice a month without any increase in staff and is settled in a\nwell-regulated schedule due to the competence of the staff within the Payroll Section.\nThe Accounting Division has experienced an increase in accounts presented\nfor payment, and much has been done to increase efficiency and speed the processing\nof accounts payable.\n ","@language":"en"}],"Genre":[{"@value":"Legislative proceedings","@language":"en"}],"Identifier":[{"@value":"J110.L5 S7","@language":"en"},{"@value":"1965_V02_03_J1_J99","@language":"en"}],"IsShownAt":[{"@value":"10.14288\/1.0371069","@language":"en"}],"Language":[{"@value":"English","@language":"en"}],"Provider":[{"@value":"Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library","@language":"en"}],"Publisher":[{"@value":"Victoria, BC : Government Printer","@language":"en"}],"Rights":[{"@value":"Images provided for research and reference use only. 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