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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Havering 1966
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Havering]
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instances for patients living alone for whom alternative arrangements
cannot be made. The patients for whom night attendants
are provided are in the main terminal cases. The service was
extended in June 1966 by the inauguration of a. Good Neighbour
Service. Under this scheme, neighbours of housebound patients
are enrolled to give daily care to patients additional to that
provided by the Home Help Service, by calling in at various
times during the day to ensure the comfort of the patient and to
see that any immediate needs are met.
Statistics relating to the service are given in Table 17
TABLE - 17
| Requests for help from new cases during the year. | 1092 |
| Cases not eligible for assistance or not requiring services. | 202 |
| New cases helped during the year | 890 |
| Cases being helped at the end of the year | 1667 |
| Totalcases helped during the year | 2374 |
| Total number of hours of help provided during the year | 327,210 |
The total number of cases helped increased by 8.5% over
the figure of 2188 for 1965, and the number of hours of help
provided increased by 7.4% over the 1965 figure of 304,789,
illustrating the continued expansion of this service.
The categories of cases helped during the year were as
follows:—
Chronic Sick under Aged 65 years of age or 1626
65 years of age. 288 over.
Maternity. 247
Others (Acute illness, Mental Disorder, Problem
Families etc. 213
Statistics relating to the Night Attendant Service are given
in Table 18.
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