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方面委員制度

Direction committee system

1918年、大阪府知事の林市蔵(はやし・いちぞう)と大阪府社会事業の小河滋次郎(おがわ・しげじろう)が考案した社会事業を補助する制度。生活困窮者の発見につとめ、民生委員制度につながる制度といわれる。

This is a system to assist social work that was devised in 1918 by Hayashi Ichizo, Governor of Osaka Prefecture, and Ogawa Shigejiro, of Osaka Prefectural Social Work. This system worked to find persons in need and is said to have led to the system of commissioned welfare volunteers.