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SURVEY OF
SOCIAL
AGENCIES
The new Directory of Social Agencies
issued by the Board of Social Study and
Training of N.S.W. reveals an extraord-
inary amount of social welfare work in
Sydney.
The directory is the first of its kind to
be published in this State, and is a defi-
nite step towards co-ordinating local
social work.
A STUDY of the section, Family and
Adult Welfare shows that there are
no less than 80 relief societies operating
in Sydney.
There are 25 homes and refuges, 16
church or private homes, and 21 hostels
for students, men and boys, or women
and girls.
Homes and Hostels
Women in distress are well looked
after. The Salvation Army provide two
homes, one at Victoria Road, Marrick-
ville, and the other in Gilpin Street,
Newtown. The second is the Sydney
Rescue Work Society's home for mater-
nity cases; post natal care being also
provided. At the other shelter is given
to unmarried mothers, and to friendless
married women. The Convent of the
Good Shepherd, Victoria Street, Ashfield,
offers a home to girls and women who
want to rest and reform. The " Dalwood "
Rest Home, French's Forest Road, Bal-
gowlah, which is controlled by the Food
for Babies Fund, supplies a home for
overworked mothers, girls, convalescent
and under-nourished children, and
children whose mothers are in hospital.
none Help
MRS. R. L. HODGSON, Mayoress
of North Sydney. She is an active
worker for local charities, and at
the moment is assisting with vari-
ous entertainments to raise funds
for the endowment of a cot in the
North Shore Hospital.
—Robin Cale.
The Girls' Rescue Home, 97 Cambridge
Street, Stanmore, looks after girls who,
through misfortune, have been through
police courts. They are trained and as-
sisted in finding employment.
The National Council of Women Hos-
tel, 5 Bligh Street, Sydney, caters for
needy women and girls. In Beauchamp
Lane, off Reservoir Street, there is the
Open All Night Refuge for Friendless
Women. Children are taken in with their
mothers, and temporary shelter and food
provided. The Relief Home for Women
and Children, 329 Bourke Street, Dar-
linghurst, is open at all hours, and makes
no distinction as to creed or nationality.
Parcels of food and clothing are dis-
tributed daily to women from the
Samaritan Home, 6 O'Loughlin Street;
a home for destitute women is also pro-
vided. St. Anthony's Home, Alexandria
Avenue, Burwood, is for Roman Catholic
mothers and infants and abandoned
children. The St. Magdalen Retreat,
Arncliffe, is another Roman Catholic
home for penitent women of all creeds.
The directory contains a great deal of
interesting information relating to every
variety of social work. There is a list
of consul and overseas representatives,
some brief chapters on Government and
administrative law, and notes on indus-
trial arbitration, naturalisation, and mi-
gration.
Another interesting section is a direc-
tory of associations, clubs, societies, etc.
Under the heading " Health," details
are given in the directory of all public
health services, including a section on
maternal and baby welfare, with a list
of baby health centres.
The Board of Social Study and Train-
ing, of which Professor H. Tasman
Lovell is president, exists for the pur-
pose of training people for social work
of all kinds.
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