94 + REPORT OF THE GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS

Community Chest

 The 1962 drive was highly successful in that the goal of $15,000 was
surpassed by pledges and contributions in the amount of $16,972.05.
The following is a summary of traditional Chest services provided
during this fiscal year:

 Program Cost Services rendered

Housekeeping and laundry........ $2,651. 52 2,715 cleanings-1,119 pieces.
Home nursing __-----.. -------- 4,508. 96 Increased caseload.
Cancer care.------------------- .. 2,667.00 Hospital bills and travel costs.
Emergency needs- ..--------------- 482.30 Cash grants, furniture, etc.
Special aid to patients in institu- 502.00 Monthly grants, etc.
tions.
Homemaker service-St. John ...- 348.96 Care of aged.



Expenditures
 The growth of the Department of Social Welfare may be sum-
marized in the following chart which shows appropriations by the
local legislature for social welfare over the past five fiscal years:

 Operating budget-Local appropriations

 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962

Office of the Commissioner.--. ------------ $23,600 $24,400 $27,000 $29,977 $30,032
Bureau of Business Management ---...---------- 38, 200 40,000 41,628 45, 614 67, 039
Division of Public Assistance ------------------ 211,000 214,800 254,558 308,558 376,781
Division of Child Welfare&. ---.- ---------- 113,400 118,000 138,275 172,487 199,163
Division of Institutions and Special Programs...... 39,700 40,000 70,600 91,030 1192,142
 865,15---
 425,900 437,200 532,061 647,696 865, 157

 I Herbert Grigg Home for the Aged transferred from the Department of Health to Social Welfare on Janu-
ary 1, 1962.

 Human Relations

 The Legislature of the Virgin Islands at the end of the fiscal year
 1961 enacted and the Governor approved an amended and compre-
 hensive civil rights code for the Virgin Islands, intended to guarantee
 to every citizen of the Virgin Islands, whether native-born or adopted,
 the equal and full enjoyment of all rights and privileges of all other
 citizens of the Virgin Islands, regardless of race, creed, color, or
 national origin.
 The Governor also appointed the Governor's Commission on
 Human Relations to work toward promoting and keeping good will
 among all the citizenry of these islands to the end that the Virgin
 Islands may remain a place where every citizen or group of citizens
 may continue to retain the dignity of person and respect of his fellow
 citizens, and where all groups may work and live together in harmony.