[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County.

  • Canterbury (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1955
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Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABIvK X Showing- total mileage and patients carried by the Hospital Car Service (Canterbury only). Jan. P'eb. Mar Apl. May June Jl.v. Aug 1 Sep. Oct. N'ov. Dec. 1 Total ; Patients Carried 2 — 1 2 2 1 — 5 6 1 1 2 1 23 .Mileage 243 — 148 207 427 280 — 407 326 119 208 118 2,483 Domestic Help Service. This service is run from the Health Department with one organiser and 22 to 25 home helps, of whom only 1 is full-time. ]\Iany of the cases are long term cases and the majority are elderly persons suffering chronic illness or infirmity. This is a change- able service and it is therefore necessary to relate the cost to the user and the cost to the authority, with the aim and value of the service. At the end of the year we were faced with the problem of an unrealistic scale of charges in relation to the full cost of the service, due to the rising wage bill, and a need to revise the allowances in our assessment scale to correspond more closely to cost of living changes in the community. This has been done during the spring of 1956. TABDE XI Domestic Help Cases 1958-1954. 1953 19 S4 1955'* Full- time Part- time Full- time Part- time Full- time Part- time Maternity 22 24 9 24 12 21 Acute Illness... 3 74 5 65 1 35 Chronic Illness or Infirmity 1 231 2 217 1 135 Presence of Young Children — 2 — 3 1 5 Tuberculosis ... — 13 — 7 — 7 Problem Families ... — — — — — 1 Totals 26 344 16 316 15 214 Total cases 370 332 2 29 * The figures for this year are in accordance with the Ministry’s requirements. 1954 1955 1.958 !1,852 1.959 29,002 Hours worked : I'ull-time Part-time 18 1958 1.947 87,675