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Duties and remuneration of Home Helps.
The hours of duty will be arranged so as to suit each individual mother,
a day being a minimum of five hours. The duties of a Home Help will
include:—
Keeping the house clean.
Bedmaking, etc.
Purchasing and cooking of food.
Bathing, dressing and feeding baby.
(Bat not " Nursing duties "; e.g., dressing sores or attention to
baby's eyes, etc.)
Care of the other children.
Washing of clothes, including washing of sheets, etc., used during
labour, but not arrears of washing.
Attention to the mother, exclusive of nursing duties.
The Home Help must in no Way undertake the duties of the trained
nurse.
Supervision and Complaints.
The Home Help shall work under the supervision of the Health Visitor
who shall inspect the homes where they are in attendance, and all complaints
shall be referred to the Medical Officer of Health.
Food and Overalls.
The Home Help must supply her own food which she can cook at the house.
Overalls will be supplied and these overalls must be kept at the Public Health
Offices and will be laundered free.
The Council's Panel.
This will be made up by applicants obtained in answer to advertisements
in the local press, in the Maternity and Child Welfare Centres and by the
Health Visitors.
Infantile Mortality.
During the year 191 infants died under the age of I year. The figures
are remarkably lower than last year, the infant mortality rate being 63 per
1,000 births compared with 87.2 in 1934.