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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
Leyton 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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Convalescence for Adults
Number of applications during year 85
Length of stay -
One week 2
Two weeks 47
Three weeks 29
Four weeks 7
SECTION 29
DOMESTIC HELP
Number of helps and hours worked -
Number of domestic helps enrolled at end of year -
Whole time helps 7
Regular part-time helps 112
Number of domestic helps actually employed
at end of year 107
Number of hours worked during year 147,519
Work of Domestic Help Organiser
(1) First Visits 500
(2) Re visits to beneficiaries
(a) Domestic help present 69
(b) Domestic help not present 241
(3) Other visits 156
Help Provided
| Maternity | Acute Sick | Tuberculosis | Chronic Sick | Aged Not Sick | Others | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aged | Others | |||||||
| Requests for help from new cases during the year | 46 | 30 | 5 | 385 | 62 | 21 | 5 | 554 |
| New cases help during the year | 38 | 27 | 5 | 345 | 50 | 17 | 4 | 486 |
| Total cases completed during the year (a) | 39 | 28 | 13 | 303 | 52 | 14 | 4 | 453 |
| Cases being helped at end of year who have received help for - Under 3 months | - | 4 | - | 78 | 5 | 4 | - | 91 |
| 3-6 months | 1 | - | - | 46 | 5 | 2 | - | 54 |
| 6- 12 months | - | - | - | 83 | 8 | 3 | - | 94 |
| Over 12 months | - | - | 10 | 294 | 31 | 12 | - | 347 |
| Total (b) | 1 | 4 | 10 | 501 | 49 | 21 | - | 586 |
| Total cases helped during the year ((a) plus (b)) | 40 | 32 | 23 | 804 | 101 | 35 | 4 | 1,039 |
| Hours of help provided during the year | 3,011 | 1,207 | 3,356 | 118,378 | 15,846 | 5,390 | 331 | 147,519 |
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