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Night Service
This service continued during the year to provide help for patients
who are very ill or dying and who need night attention, and so enable
relatives or others who normally provide this assistance to get a certain
amount of relief. During the year seven cases were served for a total of
433 hours.
Training Scheme
The plan to give some instruction to home helps was carried out for
the first time during 1956, and has been repeated in 1957.
A small group of ten attended on Thursday afternoons at 2 o'clock
in the mothercraft room at Lordship Lane Clinic. This provides pleasant,
warm and well lit accommodation and has an adjoining room used as
a kitchen where the ever welcome cup of tea can be prepared.
Five talks were given in the series with plenty of questions at the end.
The subjects of discussion included accidents and their prevention;
emergencies, e.g. heart attacks, first aid for cuts, scalds, fits; on general
hygiene, how to look after a patient suffering from tuberculosis, or
diabetes, or the aged sick, or sick children, followed by a film strip;
on cookery, food values, quick meals, invalid cookery; on cleansing,
dusting, washing and care of furniture; and lastly, the place of the home
help service in the National Health Service, the relationship of the home
help to nurses, midwives, voluntary workers, and the cost of the service.
There can be no doubt of the enthusiasm shown by the workers at
these talks. Their questions to the lecturer and among themselves showed
a lively interest in the service.
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