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district and to arrange for the immunisation to be carried cut.
Adequate facilities exist for immunisation at the Maternity and Child
Welfare Centres in the City which is carried out by the Council's Medical Staff.
HOME NURSING
The 'City Council has an arrangement with throe District Nursing Associations
for the nursing in the homes of children under five years of age suffering from
various ailments and for certain conditions in adults The City Council pay the
Associations 2/64 per visit for this service. During the year the District
Nurses made 1,834 visits under these arrangements.
DOMESTIC AND HOME HELP SERVICE
The Domestic' Help Service inaugurated in 1946 was continued throughout the
year. The object of the scheme is to provide help in the home for sick and infirm
who are in need of such assistance and unable themselves to obtain it is A scale
is in force for the assessment of contributions by persons assisted based on
their income and outgoings.
The Government reimburse the cost of this service.
During the year some 137 perrons were assisted under the scheme. In 78
cases they were aged parsons and unable to attend to their household duties, on
account of such. infirmity. as paralysis, rheumatism, arthritis, etc. These
received continuous assistance each week. The remaining 59 cases were not aged
persons but suffered from such disabilities as blindness, heart trouble,
tuberculosis, limb injuries, and temporary illnesses.
In addition to the above, assistance was also given in the heme under the
Council's maternity and child welfare scheme during the confinement of the mother
or where the mother was otherwise incapacitated and where there were young
children in the. home, Some 162 households were assisted in this way during
the year,
MOBILE MEAL SERVICE
The Westminster Division of the British Red Cross Society wore able, in
December, 1946, to start a meals delivery service for aged people who are unable
themselves to get hot meals.
The meals are purchased by -the British Red Cross Society from a Londoners
Meals Service Centre, at a special price of 8d per meal for aged people, and
delivered to them in a mobile van to the homes. The cost of the meal being
recovered by the British Red Cross Society from the recipients.
The names and addresses of the aged people requiring the delivery of hot
meals are submitted to the Society by the Medical Officer of Health weekly.
Some 120 hot dinners per week were being delivered by the Society to aged
people in the City under this arrangement at the end of the year, and the Society
were hopeful of expanding the service.
INSULIN TREATMENT AND DIABETIC PATIENTS
During the year the Council provided free of charge, insulin treatment
for two diabetic patients in the City at a cost of £ll.11.0d.
POPULATION SURVEY IN CONNECTION WITH CHILD BEARING
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in conjunction with
the Population Investigation Committee carried out a survey throughout the
country relating to certain social and economic aspects in connection with
child-bearing. Pith the consent of the Council some 20 women who had given birth
during the week 3rd - 9th March, 1946 in Westminster were interviewed by the