[Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County.

  • Canterbury (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1956
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Credit: [Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ambulance Service. TABLE IX 1 195.1 1954 1955 1956 1 Total Patients Carried 1 22,598 28,522 26,687 26,345 1 Outpatients Only 18,6.1.3 , 24,440 22,289 21.600 i Admissions, Transfers. .■Occidents, etc. 3,965 4,082 4,398 4,/45 Mileage 1.=53.790 161,888 144,486 136,129 TABLE X Showing total mileage and patients carried by the Hospital Car Service (Canterbury only). Jan. Feb. Mar j Apl. May June Jl.v. Aug Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Total Patients Carried 3 1 4 ' 2 1 1 7 2 3 2 — 26 Mileage .346 119 671 100 1 117 no 375 272 140 96 — 2,348 Domestic Help Service. The changes in the assessment scale for this chargeable service and in the charges resulted in the reduction in total cases served. It is difficult to determine whether or not our charges have become so difficult to meet that cases of real need are being excluded. If it is so then these cases are to be found amongst those living off a small private income and not amongst those in receipt of National Assistance. It is the small private income grouj) of elderly who feel the pinch of the rising cost of living, but who, ])rideful of their indeiiendence, suffer silently and seek no succour. The i)ercentage rate of recovery of cost which rose from 10.6% in 10o;}-4 to 61% in 10,^4-5 has not been greatly improved by subsequent changes in assessment and charges, and it is i)rob- able that between 27% to :-K)% is the maximum percentage recoverable from that section of our community served and that further increases will only create hardship and reduce the intrinsic value to the community of the service provided.