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Home Helps.—The system of providing assistance in carrying out the work
of the home to expectant, nursing or ailing mothers continued in operation
throughout the year. The women employed were found by and were well known
to the health visitors, who also noted the cases in which assistance was required.
The number of cases in which home helps were employed in 1924 was 4. The
average time for which the help was required was 3 weeks, the longest being 7
weeks, and the shortest 2 weeks. The total amount expended during the financial
year to 31st March, 1925, was £6 10s., the payments made to the helps being at
the rate of 25/- per week, part of which in most cases was paid by the person
receiving the assistance of the Home Help.
SANITARY ADMINISTRATION.
Under this, which is made a separate heading by the Ministry of Health, the
Medical Officer of Health is required to make reference to a number of matters,
e.g., staff, hospital accommodation and some others, most of which will be found
dealt with elsewhere.
(1) Staff : Work of sanitary inspectors and other officers engaged in
sanitary work. This matter, so far as the inspectors are concerned, is fully
discussed in an early part of the report.
Reference has already been made to the appointment of Mrs. Spears as
Mortuary Keeper in succession to her husband, who died in July, and the following
report gives some indication of the amount of work done at the mortuary
and the extent to which it was used during the year. Regular visits of inspection
were made to the premises by the Outdoor Superintendent.