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SECTION 29 - DOMESTIC HELP
During the past year the Domestic Help Service has continued to give help to all
categories of the sick, in particular the aged, of whom Leyton has a large preponderance.
There has been a slight increase in respect of help given to the tuberculous and
acute sick, and the number of chronic aged patients continues to rise.
The Night Attendance Service has now become an integral part of the Domestic Help
Service, and a small panel of attendants is maintained. This service is of considerable
help to those people nursing sick relatives in their homes, thus saving much-needed
hospital beds.
Help for problem families, care of children and harassed mothers has been adequately
given by specially selected domestic helps and they continue to give valuable assistance
in cleaning up exceptionally dirty cases.
Recruits to the Domestic Help Service have been of an extremely good standard
generally. A number of helps have now undergone a course of in-service training organised
centrally by E.C.C. health services and has proved of value and is much appreciated by
the Helps. It is hoped perhaps to extend and supplement these courses by additional
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