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(2) To deal with applications from:
(a) Applicants wishing to become Domestic Helps
(b) Applicants requiring the services of a Domestic
Help.
(3) To allot Domestic Helps to patients and to give
accurate and detailed instructions to the Help with regard to
each case.
(4) To arrange holidays and relief duties of Domestic
Helps and generally to look after their welfare.
(5) To keep such records as the Area Medical Officer deems
essential for the smooth running of the service and make such
returns as the Area Medical Officer requires.
(6) To maintain contact with Health Visitors, Midwives
and Home Nurses in the area and to work in co-operation
with them.
(7) To pay such visits to the homes of patients as may be
necessary, always bearing in mind that Health Visitors,
Midwives and Home Nurses may be able to give information
regarding cases.
(8) To take the necessary steps to make known in the
area, requirements of the service and the best ways of meeting it.
It will be appreciated that these are very responsible duties
on which much of the success of the service will depend. The
Organiser should be a woman with experience of dealing with the
public, of pleasing and understanding personality, sympathetic
in her dealings with persons in genuine need and tactful in dealing
with applicants not requiring help. She will have to assess the
amount of help required, and to ensure that the services of helpers
are used to the best advantage. Without being too much of a
disciplinarian, she should command the confidence and respect of
helpers, midwives, nurses and local medical practitioners. For
these reasons it will be appreciated that the remuneration should
be such as to attract the right type of applicant.
Full-Time or Part-Time Domestic Helps.
In the County Council's proposals made under Section 29
of the National Health Service Act it was indicated that it was
proposed, as opportunity offered, to recruit and employ at least
100 full-time and 400 part-time Domestic Helps in the