[Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Norfolk County Council.

  • Norfolk County Council
Date:
1959
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Credit: [Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Norfolk County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cases assisted during die past three years were as follows; Maternity Children without mothers Post-operative Sick and old age ... Blind Tuberculosis 1957 1958 1959 108 108 90 12 10 11 16 15 17 838 851 940 45 50 53 13 10 10 1,032 1,044 1,121 towards the cost of the s accordance with their financial circumstances, subject to a minimum charge of !0s. per week. Householders eligible for National Assistance can obtain an attendance allowance from the National Assistance Board to meet this charge. Home helps employed at the end of the last three years were as follows:— 1957 1958 1959 Whole-time 1 1 1 Part-time 13 8 7 Occasional 392 407 434 406 416 442 increase in the number of cases assisted is reflected in the larger number of home helps employed. Many of these home helps take a very great interest in the welfare of the people they assist and devote many hours to them in excess of those for which they are paid. The home help organiser, and her assistant stationed at King’s Lynn, are responsible for the general administration of the scheme, the supervision of home helps, the investigation of cases specially referred from the local health areas and arrangements for problem families. The day-to-day work of the scheme is carried out in the nine local health offices, the Council’s local welfare officers being responsible for the field work. Wherever possible, the home help service is being utilised to assist problem families. In general, such families need much more assistance than routine cases and make special demands upon the home helps who assist with training, guidance and advice. This work requires specially selected home helps and, to qualify them for this purpose, three-day training courses are being arranged annually, in conjunction with the Education Committee. These courses include lectures, demonstrations and practical work. A certificate is presented to each home help at the conclusion of the course. The table on page 29 shows the number of cases assisted, and the duration of assistance provided, during 1959.