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Home Helps.
A panel of suitable women has been set up.
With regard to the mother, the duties of a Home Help are
largely a matter of medical detail, the most important point
being the prevention of injury or infection by the Home Help,
who is admittedly ignorant of midwifery nursing procedure.
Her work is under the general supervision of a Health Visitor.
She prepares meals for the family, sees to the general cleanliness
of the mother's room and the home, the washing and drying
of soiled clothing, and to the children going to school properly
dressed. She must not undertake those services to the
mother and baby which properly fall upon the midwife.
This service is available for those of economic circumstances
not more than the Council's free scale figure, and for women
who are incapacitated during pregnancy, or who need assistance
in the home during the lying-in period, and in respect of
the confinement, both to the woman having her baby at home
and to the woman having her baby in Hospital for medical or
environmental reasons.
The remuneration of the Home Helps is 25/- per week
when so employed. So far the Scheme is in its infancy, but the
number of names on the panel is small.
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