[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • East Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tlie County. The scheme was based on one origdnally operated lyv the vSociety, and who made available the equipment they then held as a nucleus lo which has been added equipment j)i-OYided by llu‘ ('ounty (anincil. All costs are now met by the County ('ouiicil, but the arraugements lor local distribu- tion are in the hands of the voluntary |»ersonnel of tlie Society. Chargeis according to the patient,s' means are only made for laig'or articles, (cg., wheel chaii's, air beds, (he. Il was Inqied i t,o arrange for a similar scheme with the St. John Ambulance ' llrigade in lhos(‘ })arts of the ('ounty where this voluntary asso(dation op(U'ates, but unfoldnnately it has not been possible ^ to make an arrangement coinjiarable to that negotiated with > the Hritish Ited Ci'oss Society, whiidi has proved in every way satisf mdory. At the end of 1 dOih there were Td medical loan depots operating, and from these 1,CS7 articles were loaned during tire year. (I'd) Domkstk; Heli’. d'his service has develo])ed from the small Home Help service whiidi was in existence before 11148. 'The service is under the i mined iate control of a specially appointed organiser. The s(dienie provides that, as cireninstances allow, the i service of domestic heljis will be made availalde to households where that, help is recjuii’ed owing to the presence of any j person who is ill, lying-in, an expectant mother, mentally | defeidive, aged, or a (diild not over compulsory school age. i In effeid the service has been mainly used for lying-in women, i and cases of illness in many instances associated with old age. ! (Iwing to the rural nature of the County and, iji general, I the diliiculty in assuring continued work for any particular 1 domestic hel[) within easy reaidi of her home, all the domestic helps are employed on a laisual or case-to-case basis, but a certain number of these, up to, at present, a maximum of i tifteen, may be paid retaining fees when not allocated to i cases, T'he retaining fee is lbs. Ud. per week, this payment i being conditional upon the domestic help undertaking to work J within a reasonalde distance of her home in anjj household I at. the request (d' the organiser, i At the eii'd of l!)5‘d the panel of domestic helps consisted j of four “retained” domestic heljis and 118 casualh^ employed, ( Tdiis service has grown steadily each year. A limitation i| of the amount of help made availalde has existed and does * still exist, but this is mainly due to the limited number of I suitable domestic hel]cs who have to be reasonably distributed J throughout the t'ounty, and to the fact that more and more ; time is having to be s[)ent by these helps in giving service ! over long periods to patients suffering from chronic illness ! or old age.