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beds, bedding and garden shelters, extra nourishment, advice
and care of relatives, and home occupational therapy is available.
The Corporation also pay for patients in the rehabilitation units
of Village settlements. Liaison is maintained with the Ministry
of Labour and advantage taken of nearby Remploy factories. The
Health Committee deals with the arrangements for ensuring that
all Corporation employees whose duties involve contact with
children are free from infectious Tuberculosis.
There has been no extenison of these services for other
illnesses except that financial responsibility is accepted for
recuperative holidays at approved voluntary homes, for suitable
patients, subject to recovery of cost according to income. This
service has had to be limited by the availability of the funds
provided in the yearly estimates.
The loan of nursing requisites for domiciliary cases, on payment
of a small charge has grown steadily since the inception of
the service, but no special difficulties have arisen. A sick room
helpers scheme is also operated under this section of the Act,
but is administered as part of the Home Help service.
Domestic Help Service
12.—Since the appointed day the pattern of work has changed
to the extent that full-time help for maternity cases has been overshadowed
by the part-time assistance required for long term
patients, and especially old persons. Again, demand has been
heavy and limitations of financial estimates have to be considered
when deciding how much help can be allocated for the old age
pensioners to whom no charge is normally made. No special
facilities have been provided for the training of the Home Helps.
Night attendants are supplied in appropriate cases, to assist in the
care of patients being nursed at home during periods when no
relative or other person is available to be with an invalid who
cannot be left alone. This service is limited to covering cases
awaiting hospital admission or relieving relatives exhausted by
continuous attention.
Health Education
13.—Experience has shown that intensive but brief composite
functions while spectacular achieve little permanent result. The
best medium is the personal advice and persuasion of doctors,
health visitors, sanitary inspectors and other members of the
department engaged in their daily tasks. The Health Committee
makes an annual payment to the Central Council for Health