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Additional Facilities available at Welfare Centres.
(i) Home Helps. The system of home helps inaugurated
in May, 1928, by the council has again proved its usefulness
during the year. 165 applications were received, 4 subsequently
cancelled, 28 being emergency cases.
The expense to the council was only £100 16s. 6d., and from
every point of view the money could scarcely have been better
spent. The number benefiting under this service has risen year by
year since it began.
(ii) Sterile Maternity Outfits. These outfits contain sterilised
dressings, etc., and are sold at cost price at every welfare centre.
In the course of the year 388 of these outfits were sold. The
council has sanctioned the issue of these outfits free or at reduced
cost in cases of poverty.
30 applications (3 since cancelled) for assistance towards the
purchase of these outfits from necessitous cases were received in the
course of the year at a cost to the council of £3 5s. Od.
(iii) Sterilization of Bed Linen, etc. During the year 34
applications only were received from the whole area in connexion
with the service which is entirely free.