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of cases receiving service to rise, In short, the cases are not
ceasing at as high a rate as they are commencing. At the end of
the year there were approximately 170 cases who had been receiving
help for more than three years.

The policy of the department is to provide at least a little
amount of help to all needy cases and it will be appreciated that
the task of providing help, week by week to nearly 900 cases calls
for careful planning particularly taking into account absences of
staff owing to sickness in the winter and holidays during the
summer months.
It should be stated that as each new case is visited by the
organising staff, enquiries are made to establish whether the
necessary help can be provided by any other means e.g. by adult
children or other relatives, but it has become increasingly evident
that many married daughters who would in the past have been
able to help their aged parents are themselves going out to work
and are unable to assist.