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HOME HELPS.
The Home Helps scheme during the year 1947 expanded
considerably largely owing to the considerable increase that
occurred in the birth-rate.
(1) Number of Home Helps—January 1st
and December 31st, 1947—
1/1/47. 31/12/47.
(a) Full-time 35 37
(b) Part time 10 20
(2) Number of applications—
(a) Maternity 825
(b) Sickness 141
(3) Number of applications met—
(a) Maternity 771
(b) Sickness 100
(4) Average duration of services given—
(a) Maternity 14 days
(b) Sickness 10—21 days
(5) Amount recovered for services £1,770 17s. 5d.
(6) Rate of remuneration of "Helps"—
(a) Maternity :
Jan. 1st—Oct. 28th £4 5s. 2d. weekly
Oct. 29th—Dec. 31st £4 14s. Od. weekly
(b) Sickness :
Jan. 1st—Oct. 28th l/9fd. per hour
Oct. 29th—Dec. 31st 2/0d. per hour
Reference should also be made to page 97 for further data
in regard to this Service.
AMBULANCE SERVICE.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
I beg to submit the Sixth Annual Report and Statistics of
this Service, for the year ended 31st December, 1947.
During the year the Service dealt with 18,368 calls, which is
an increase of 3,094 over the figures for 1946, and this increase is
spread over all types of cases.
The total mileage covered by ambulances on calls during the
year was 146,199 miles, which is almost double the mileage for
1946.