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1952 1953 1954 1955
No. of old people on
register at beginning of
year 3,388 4,949 5,017 5,100
No. of cases lost 250 355 604 691
No. of initial visits 1,844 2,027 2,292 740
No. of re-visits 1,536 2,387 2,598 3,320
No. of interviews 1,739 1,005 2,054 1,859
No. of visits to chronic
sick 196 356 500 560
One feature of the work is the increased demand made in
respect of the home supervision of chronic sick old people
awaiting admission, or discharged from, hospital (or not suitable
for hospital treatment). Pour years ago, the number of visits
paid to chronic sick was one hundred and ninety-six, and in 1955,
the figure had increased to five hundred and sixty. These
visits, generally speaking, take up a large amount of time, and
as a consequence the work of visiting old people, believed to
be in reasonably good health, has to be curtailed.
VITAL STATISTICS
The table set out on the next two pages gives the important
vital statistics for 1955, together with comparative figures for
the previous seven years.