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B (9). Home Help.
The Council's Home Help Scheme continued to function
throughout the year, and the following figures will show the
extent to which it was used:—
Total No. of cases booked 42
No. of cases attended by: Home Help No. 1 21
Home Help No. 2 14
Home Help No. 3 5
40
No. of cases booked and subsequently cancelled 2
42
No. of days on which Home Help was employed:
Home Help No. 1 294
Home Help No. 2 138
Home Help No. 3 33½
4
465½
SECTION C—PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL
OVER NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
C(1). Infectious Diseases' Hospital.
The Erith Borough Council provides its own Isolation
Hospital. A large portion of admissions are cases of Scarlet
Fever and Diphtheria, but any notifiable infectious disease may
be admitted with the exception of smallpox and puerperal
infections, special arrangements for which are described elsewhere
in this report. Cases of Measles and Whooping Cough
are admitted during epidemic times.
C (2). TABLES.