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availing themselves of help or facilities provided under this
section, such charges (if any) as the Authority consider reasonable,
having regard to the means of those persons".
The following is a summary of the cases in which assistance
was given in 1969 :—
Aged 65 or over on first visit in 1969 2,122
Under 65—
Chronic Sick and T.B 215
Mentally disordered 27
Maternity 285
Illness 319
Hours of Service given
Home Help Service 230,740
Family Care Service 2,391
Family Welfare Service 295
Evening Service 607
Total 234,033
Family Care Service
26 cases involving 77 children, received assistance.
Family Welfare Service
4 cases received assistance in 1969.
Night and Evening Service
5 cases received assistance during the year.
It will be seen that Home Help was supplied in 3,003 homes
during the year 1969.
In-Service Training
Two Area Organisers attended a Seminar for Home Help
Organisers in London arranged by the London Boroughs Training
Committee.
The Area Organisers have taken students from other sections
of the Health and Welfare Department out visiting, in order to
show them the work of the Home Helps, and their own responsibilities,
in the domiciliary care of the aged and sick, and in the
homes of young families with health or social problems.
Lectures have been given at intervals to groups of students
by the Senior Organisers, who also take part in Case Conferences
held to consider the problems of families whose standards of
living have deteriorated.