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L.G.B. INSPECTOR AND PONTARDAWE…
L.G.B. INSPECTOR AND PONTARDAWE GUARDIANS A HEART TO HEART TALK. Mr. Hugh R. Williams, Local Gov- ernment Board Inspector, visited Pon- tardawe on Thursday and alter confer- ring with the members of the three relief committees, was present at the usual fortnightly meeting of the Guardians, over which Mr. Hopkin J. Powell presided. Mr. Williams congratulated the Guardians upon being housed in such a very nice room. He hoped that by coming to that room to hold their meetings would not cause them to neglect the workhouse as there was that danger when they removed their meetings from the Poor Law institu-I tion. The object of the Guardians vigiting the workhouse waa not so much to find fault with the Matron and Master as to give the inmates an op- portunity of having a chat with them. THE NEED FOR WOMEN GUARDIANS. Although they were moving forward in proviumg themselves with comfort- able rooms in which to hold their meetings there was one thing still lacking. "I do not know whether you anticipate what I am going to say, but it seems to be unsatisfactory when I have to address you as Mr. Chairman and gentlemen,' instead of being able to address myself to Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen.' (Hear, hear). There is oertain work we, as men, cannot do as well as the women, such as the ,1.tration of the female wards and of the care of children. Women know more than men about that eort of thing, and if the electorate does not replace some of you bl sending women here would it mot be possible to carry out the sug- gestion of the Local Government Board that there should be a Women's Committee. I certainly do find that where there are women serving as Guardians they are of great assistance in tl|e administration of the import- ant work you are entrusted with. THE TREATMENT OF PHTHISIS. The Guardians have been doing very good work in dealing with cases of consumption. They have sent these cases to sanatoria and have been giv- ing exceptionally good relief iø. order to get them .good nourishment, as re- commended by the medical offioers, in their own homes, and they have been doing all sorts of things to try and cure and give proper treatment to consumptive cases. Throughout Eng- land and Wales it is now the duty of the Health Authority to provide treatment for the cure and treatment of all consumptives whether the}} are insured persons or not. If insured persons, they are assisted by the funds of the National Insurance. Recently you had a circular sent to you from the Welsh National Memorial in which they stated they will make provision for all vour eases. I do not doubt for a moment that it is the desire of the Welsh National Memorial to under- take to provide the necessary accom- modation, but I am quite sure of this that they cannot do it for two or three years. At the present time they are taking what are called the inci- pient cases—cases in the early stages, but this morning, I am stirp-ised to find that one of the Guardian's cases sent from iour Union to some sana- torium belonging to the Welsh Memorial because, I hope I have been correctly informed, of want of room there, was returned to you before lie was cured. That is hardly fair to you because if a married man with a family is returned before he is cured there is the probability that he will infect his family. This man came back improved but not cured And not able to follow his occupation with the result that he is at home with his wife and several children,, And your own doctor recommends that he should be sent back to the sana- torium. In a few years' time all con- sumptive oases will be taken off your hands, but not for two or three years' time. In the meantime and pending the removal to sanatoria provided by the Welsh National Memorial, it seems you have a strong claim to go to the Local Government Board and ask them to allow you to proceed with what you propose (to fit out a phthisis ward at the workhouse) because when the cases are removed to the Welsh National Memorial sanatoria the room could he used for other cases. I be- lieve you will have a sufficient num- ber of eases which will require isola- tion from the other wards, and I strongly urge you to appeal to the Local Government Board stating that this is an auxiliary to the other wards. NEED FOR INSTITUTIONAL I TREATMENT. Connected with this matter, I should like to point out that you have in every Poor Law institution in the country a skilled nurse. Now, you must have a, thoroughly trained and skilled nurse. I have seen in your books to-day a number of cases of people who are sick and are being treated at home. I wonder whether the district medical offioers are doing their duty bX such oases that would benefit by institutional treatment. I am quite sure that, in visiting the homes of the poor a good Uti m her of these cases would be cured if they could be persuaded to enter a Poor Law institution. If' they could be told and could understand the differ- ence between the institutions then and now and that proper arrangements are made for their treatment. They would not refuse to be so treated. Your medical officers might try and persuade men and women to take ad- vantage of these proper sick wards. INCREASE IN OUTDOOR RELIEF. In respect of outdoor relief I am sorry to find that it is on the increase. Dulling the past three years there has been an increase of two points in your district. The number of inmates has considerably- increased during the past. 5 years. On the 31st March, 1909, there were 55 inmates, on the 31st March, 1913, there were 77 in- mates, an increase of 22. The number of outdoor poor from 1909 has gone down from 690 to 629, but there has been an increase in the number of outdoor poor between 31st March, 1913, and 31st March last, an increase of 64, Another !letn of increase is the cost. The cost of maintenance in the house has increased from L665 to £ 1,320. Outdoor relief has decreased f rom E5,333 in 1910 to £4,593 in 1914, but I am sorry to see that it has gradually been going up for the last three years. Last year it went up by £80, and sihee last year it has gone up JE411. I have been accus- tomed to expect, in the Pontardawe Union, a reduction always. You had a reduction for a good number of years but there is now a tendency to an increase. I A SERIOUS RESPONSIBILITY. I do not want to do more than to ask you to remember the very serious responsibility devolving upon you as guardians and to confine assistance to those who are really in,need of it, and those deserving of it. It is very easy to give relief and to be generous but in doing so it is not only a burden to the ratepayers but very demoralizing to the poor themselves. It is very demoraliziing to create a pauper if you can possibly avoid it, although I do give you credit for trying to do your very best. I do hope you will try and confine to outdoor relief all those per- sons who are rtvi'ly in need of it. A vote of thanka to Mr. Williams was proposed by the Chairman, and seconded by Mr. F. R. Phillips. Mr. J. W. Morgan (Ystradgynlais) suggested that by, gra,nt,ing £25 to the Welsh National Memorial the Ystradgynlais Council had shown more common sense than had the Pontar- dawe Council who had refused to sub- scribe to the Memorial. The Chairman: You are mistaking the Welsh National Memorial for the Welsh National Library, Mr. Morgan. (Laughter).
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Mrs. Philip Snowden is making satis- factory progress towards recovery and was permitted to leave her bed far a few hours during the week-end. Mr Albert Jenkins, the Swansea Cor- poration estate agent, was on Friday ap- pointed to the vacant position of land steward and surveyor of Liverpool at a r salary of jSl,2000 a year.
MINERS' SECRETARY HONOURED.
MINERS' SECRETARY HONOURED. In acknowledgement of his many public, services Provost Brown, the Scottish miners' secretary and the chairman of the Midlothian Insurance Committee, was entertained at dinner at Dalkeith on Friday evening. A pre- sentation of a marble clock, a gold watch and chain, and a purse of 9160 was then made to him. Ex-Provost Tod presided over a representative gathering. Lord Murray, of Elibank and Sir Chas Dalrymple were among the sub- scribers. Mr. Robert Smillie. presi- dent of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, apologised for non-at- tendance, being delayed in London.
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Newa reached Criekhowielll on Sunday that Lord Glanusk, who has been resident in London for some months past, had met with an accident at Burnham, neair Windsor, and that he had sustained a broken leg.
BATHS AT THE PITS.
BATHS AT THE PITS. What the Wives Can Do. The question of pithead1 baths is first and foremost a..question for the miners' wives, says Mr. Vernon Hartshorn, J.P. I believe the miners themselves will gain enormous benefits by the establishment of the pithead baths, but the women folk of the miners' homes stand to benefit much more. The women can quickly and easily ensure that laths shall be constructed at the pithead in a short time if they can only be convinced that it would raise the standard of the home, and I do not think the new movement could hope for much success if it did not provide that the miners' wives should- be invited and encouraged to associate themselves very closely with the work of propaganda, and that they should take the lead as far as possible in this move- ment, which has already attained to such dimensions. The importance of associating the men with the movement must also not be lost sight of. I SEND THE MEN TO SEE. It would be an excellent thing if it were made possible for deputations of the workmen from the various districts to visit the bath systems already in operation in the country, and particularly the set of baths now being built for the Ocean CoaJ Company at Trehariis. The first pit-head baths to be set up in this country were at the Atherton Collieries in Lancashire. I know at lfast one prominent leader of the Miners' Federa- tion of Great Britain who was strongly opposed to the idea of pit-head baths, but who has, since he had had experience of the baths in Lancashire, become an enthusiastic advocate of the immense Oenefit.g of the system.. The Victoria Pit ba.ths, in connection with the Atherton Collieries, were opened for the first time on August 1st, 1913, as an experiment, and bv November 1st they were being used by 129 men out of 155. At the Aifiey mine a bathing establishment with accommodation for 400 was opened on September 15th, and by December 1st was being used by 300 men. It would be well if the mcMi. after reading of all these advantages, were able to select a few from each district to go and see the baths actually in opera- tion and judge of the advantages of the arrangements for themselves. It would also be advantageous, from the woman's standpoint, if delegates representing the miners' wives could be. appointed to visit those districts v. here thei bath system had been set up and talk to the housewives as to the effect upon the comfort and amenities of the honne by the removal from the cottages of the muck and bother of the daily scrub after work, and they could come tack and tefll the others what good is being done. BATHS AND THE HOUSING PROB- LEM. It is to be hoped that even when the pithead bath movement has been carried to a successful issue and baths are pro- vided at most, if not all, of the pits, that this will not have any adverse effect upon. the movement for improving the housing conditions in the colliery and industrial districts and particularly upon the de- mand that there should be a properly equipped bath-room in every house. The need of better housing accommodation will remain as pressing a problem as ever, and there ought to be no slackening in the efforts of social reformers to grapple with the present deplorable conditions. The pithead baths will not remjady the present evils of inadequate housing ac- commodation. After all, the pithead baths will only provide bathing facilities for the men actually employed at the col- liery, and in many miners' homes there are sojis or lodgers who are employed in other occupations than mining, apart from the other miernbers of the family. If houses were built, as they ought to be built, according to economic principles that took into consideration use value alone and not speculative profit-ma king for private individuals, a bath-room in every house would he regarded as a hygienic iieceesity-as much a necessity as the drains. The time will no doutt* come when we shall build houses con- taiuMig bath-rcoms and plenty of air-space on the same principles as we now con- struct our public loads a?;d drainage systems, not as the means of earning profits for private individuals but as necessities without which civilisation in tho true sense ca.wot bo maintained. I WORKERS' UNREALISED POWER. But in the me.ant.imo we have to use every power we possess in ordter to force upwards the miserably low standard which has l'IO far betn attained by house- building for private profit, and in this direction the working-class municipal electors havy) a great deal of lee-way to make up. Though I believe that funda- mentally the housing problem is due to the system under which the use value plays second fiddle to profit making, I nevertheless believe that a very large proportion of the blame for the miser- able way in which the working classes are at present housed must be laid upon the backs of the workers themselves. The laws as they at present stand, inadequate a-s tliev may be, give very wide power to local authorities to improve the stand- ard of housing, but most of those laws are practically a dead letter, owing to the fact that the local authorities are dominated, not by direct. i-epre<sentatives of thie working class, but by builders and contractors and hoase property owners. The workers can and shoufld send a majority of representatives to tho local Councils, and seriously tackle this pt-ob, leim. Ô
I500 COTTAGES.I
I 500 COTTAGES. I I HOW SWANSEA SOLVES THE HOUSING I PROBLEM. The Swansea Housing Committee are determined to ensure the success of their big housing scheme on Tower HiU, where it is proposed to erect 500 dwellings of the cottage class, and in connection with t l ic? c o t a, which a tramway is to be constructed in order to provide ei.sy access to the site which overlooks the town, and incident- ally to cheapen the cost of building, and thereby ena.ble the houses to be let at a lower rental. The committee have just put up six "sample" cottages of various types, and, further, have decided to furnish three of them in order that the workers might see how the cottages should be set off to the best a.d vanta,ge. The Mayoress (Mrs. Corker), the .ex- Mayoress (Mrs. David Williams), and Mrs. H. D. Williams and Mr Roberts (two members of the Education Com- mittee) are assisting the committee in the latter matter, and, it has been agreed that the furniture is not be on a lavish scale, but such as might be obtained by an average workman.
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HISTORY OF THE AMMAN V ALLEY.…
HISTORY OF THE AMMAN V ALLEY. i SOME INTERESTING DISCOVERIES, I The Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society enjoyed a "field day in the Amman Valley on Thnrsday. when, as the guests of the Ammanford mem- bers, a numerous party visited several historic spots, including Plas Llanedy, Maesquare, and Tirydail Mount. The site of the original Pant-y-Ffynnon Colliery was first visited, and Captain Joshua Lloyd read a short paper on the history of the place, pointing out that they there stood on the threshold of the summer house of Cadwgan, the son of Gathan, which now composed the greater part of Hafodwgan Farm and Castell-Waen-Rhys, and com- manded a view of five parishes. At Plas Llanedy, now a farmhouse in the occupation of Mr. and Mrs. Da vies, the company were entertained to tea, and at a subsequent meeting, presided over bi Mr. Stepney Gulston, of Derwydd, Mr. George Eyre Evans, Aberystwyth, one of the joint secre- taries of the association, said this old Elizabethan house was formerly called Cwnt-y-Ceidrm. The word "cwrt" showed at once that it was an ancient court of justice, and additional proof was that there was a little lock-up inside. The meeting decided to write to Messrs. Buckleys, Ltd., the owners, erpressing a hope that if any repairs were necessary they would be carried out in a conservative spirit, and that the ancient features of the building would be preserved.
TRAGEDY OF UNEMPLOYMENT.
TRAGEDY OF UNEMPLOYMENT. WIFE'S STRUGGLE WITH DEMENTED HUSBAND. Driven crazy through insominia and his inability to obtain work, Henry John Wilmer, a shop assistant, of Ranelagh Road, Pimlico, S.W., com- I mitted suicide by cutting his throat with a carving knife. His wife, who had entered domestic service in order to keep the home together, sustained injury in attempting to wrest the knife from him. Looking very, weak and ill. Mrs. Wilmer appeared at Westminster Cor- oney's Court on Friday, and stated that her husband iii) to' the time of his death was sttffei-ing acutelv from in- comnia. She tried her utmost to pre- vent him killing himself, and in strug- gling with him she received cuts on the neck and hands. He made no attempt to injure her. A doctor stated that the dead man s wounds were ferocious and self-inflicted, and a verdict of suicide during tempor- ary insanity was returned.
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I A SPELLING BEE. I
I A SPELLING BEE. I The scene was in a barrack-room— i Private Tomkins sitting at a table writ- j ing a letter for home. Suddenly he ex- I' claimed to a few of his comrades in the room:— I Say, mates, how d'yer spell Fort," F-o-u-g-b-t," said one. No, that's not what I mean." F-or-t" exclaimed another. "No, that's the Fort we live in. Now what I mean is the Fort you fink wiv."
PUNCTILIOUS JOHNNIE.
PUNCTILIOUS JOHNNIE. A Sunday School teacher was ques- tioning her class of boys on the strength of their desire for righteousness. All those who wish to go to heaven," she said, "please stand." All got to their feet but one small boy. Why, Johnnie," exclaimed the shocked teacher, do you mean to sayl that you don't want to go to heaven?" No, ma'am," replied Johnnie jt promptly. "Not if that bunch is go. ing.