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Leyton 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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SECTION 29
DOMESTIC HELP.
It was in October, 1946, that the Leyton Council, the then
Maternity and Child* Welfare Authority, extended their scheme
for domestic help by including the provision of domestic help in
necessitous cases other than mothers and infants; and in my last
two annual reports I have dealt at some length with certain
difficulties of administration—the duties of an Area Domestic Help
Organiser, the arguments for and against part-time employment
of helpers, the different types of cases to be helped, how the scheme
is administered and other aspects of the subject.
As the new scheme has now been in operation for four complete years, some idea of the increase in the work may be gathered from these figures:—
| Year | Number of Cases | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Maternity | Other | Total | |
| 1947 | 211 | 27 | 238 |
| 1948 | 162 | 85 | 247 |
| 1949 | 168 | 214 | 382 |
| 1950 | 136 | 464 | 600 |
It will be seen that, whereas there has been no increase—in
fact, a decrease since 1949—in the annual number of maternity
cases, the number of cases other than maternity has been increasing
greatly each year.
Summary of Cases Helped during 1950.
Maternity. Other. Total.
No. of cases dealt with136 464 600
The following list shows the disabilities from which the 600
applicants were suffering, and the number of cases in each category