[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City.
- Nottingham (England). City Council.
- Date:
- 1948
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![It is still extremely difficult to recruit sufficient helpers. A number of suitable women would, however, be available if their small children could be accepted into Nursery Schools, but these are already full to capacity. The same difficulty arises each school holiday when a number of helpers are compelled to remain at home while their children are away from school, leading to a shortage of helpers for some weeks during the summer. The scope and amount of work done by the Home Help Service during 1948 can be seen from the following No. of Home Helps on Register at the end of 1948 . . ] 00 Cases assisted during the year :— Illness or domestic difficulty .. 607 Confinements .. .. .. 97 - 704 Applications not considered suitable .. .. 12 Remissions of Payment. Applications for remission of payment, mainly from Old Age Pensioners and expectant mothers, have increased with the larger number of cases dealt with. Total or partial remission of payment was made in the following cases :— Old Age Pensioners .. .. .. 135 Sickness cases .. .. .. .. 25 Blind persons .. .. .. .. 3 Tuberculosis .. .. .. .. 12 Confinements .. .. .. .. 20 195](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29924583_0080.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
