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Home Visits
Home visits to clients by Organisers during 1969 totalled
8,830. This figure does not include visits to the Home Helps or
calls made but no admittance gained.
Essential day-to-day help in homes where there is real need
continues to be supplied. Recruiting is spasmodic, but by advertisement,
personal effort, and recommendation, gaps caused by
retirement and ill health are filled. Since there are increasing
numbers of elderly and sick people who must remain in their
own homes, it is evident that Home Helps must always be found,
in spite of local difficulties in obtaining staff. There is, however,
increasing need for selectivity in assessing individual needs, and
co-operation with other statutory and voluntary organisations
which is so valuable to both sides.
VENEREAL DISEASES
Under the National Health Service Act of 1946, diagnosis
and treatment of venereal diseases became a responsibility of the
Regional Hospital Boards and the functions of the local health
authorities were limited to those of prevention. This involves
the tracing of contacts wherever possible, and health education.
There are no treatment centres for these diseases within the
Borough.
I am indebted to the physicians at the undermentioned treatment
centres for the following statistics for 1969: —