London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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Convalescence for Adults
Number of applications during year 74
Length of stay -
One week -
Two weeks 43
Three weeks 29
Pour weeks 2
SECTION 29
DOMESTIC HELP
Number of helps and hours worked -
Number of domestic helps enrolled at end of year
Whole-time helps 4
Regular part time helps 138
Number of domestic helps actually
employed at end of year 136
Number of hours worked during year 165,382
Work of Domestic Help Organiser -
(1) First Visits 537
(2) Re-visits to beneficiaries -
(a) Domestic help present 223
(b) Domestic help not present 486
(3) Other visits 339
| Maternity | Acute Sick | Tuberculosis | Chronic Sick | Aged not Sick | Others | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aged | Others | |||||||
| Requests for help from new cases during the year | 54 | 36 | 9 | 402 | 66 | 8 | 5 | 580 |
| New cases helped during the year. | 52 | 37 | - | 374 | 61 | 9 | 4 | 537 |
| Total cases completed during the year (a) | 53 | 27 | 5 | 326 | 41 | 12 | 4 | 468 |
| Cases being helped at end of year who have received help for - | ||||||||
| Under 3 months | - | 8 | - | 83 | 15 | 3 | - | 109 |
| 3 -6 months | - | 3 | - | 51 | 9 | - | - | 63 |
| 6-12 months | - | 1 | 1 | 99 | 13 | 1 | - | 115 |
| Over 12 months | - | 5 | 317 | 32 | 14 | - | 368 | |
| Total (b) | - | 12 | 6 | 550 | 69 | 18 | - | 655 |
| Total cases helped during the year (a) plus (b)) | 53 | 39 | 11 | 876 | 110 | 30 | 4 | 1123 |
| Hours of help provided during the year | 3,081 | 1,864 | 2,944 | 134,958 | 16,731 | 5,425 | 379 | 165,382 |
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