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Home Helps
This service is intended essentially as an emergency service by which
help is sent in to a household faced with some emergency, often enough
the result of the mother herself succumbing to some illness. In practice
though it has gradually become one of providing help to the aged and
those suffering from some long-standing illness. The assistance which can
be given to these people is of the greatest importance, as even moderate
help enables some of them to continue to live at home who, without it
could not have managed, and would have had to have been admitted to
an institution, either Part III welfare accommodation or even a hospital.
Although at no time has it been possible to recruit sufficient home
helps to meet the full demands, and particulary to give more aid at such
times as epidemic illness, the staff engaged are able to meet promptly
most of the requests. Additional staff would enable more help to be given
in certain cases where the present limitation of numbers permits giving
only of a minimum service.
The average number of home helps was one full-time and sixty-six
part-time, being an equivalent of forty-one full-time home helps. They
gave assistance in 1,257 households. In 366 of these the patient helped was
a maternity case, in thirteen was one suffering from tuberculosis, in 314
was one suffering from an acute condition and in 564 was a long term case.
DAY NURSERIES
The same two day nurseries provided for the admission of children
whose mothers needed to go out to work, Headstone Drive Nursery with
its fifty places and the Walton Avenue, South Harrow, Nursery with
its sixty.
CLINICS AND TREATMENT CENTRES
The following is a list of the clinics and treatment centres in, or
serving the district :—
Infant Welfare Centres
The Clinic, Alexandra Avenue, South Harrow Mon. and Fri. p.m.
Broadway Clinic, The Broadway, Wealdstone Wed. a.m. and p.m.
All Saint's Hall, Roche Avenue, Edgware Thur. and Fri. p.m.
Elmwood Clinic, Elmwood Avenue, Kenton Mon. and Wed. p.m.
Elstree Clinic, "Schopwick," Elstree, Herts 2nd and 4th Wed. p.m.
Greenwood Hall, Rickmansworth Road, Pinner Wed. p.m.
Memorial Hall, High Road, Harrow Weald Thur. p.m.
The Clinic, Honeypot Lane, Stanmore Mon. and Wed. p.m.
| he Clinic, Kenmore Road, Kenton Wed. a.m. and p.m.
Methodist Church Hall, Love Lane, Pinner Fri. p.m.
Methodist Church Hall,Walton Ave., S.Harrow Thur. p.m.
t. Alban's Church Hall, North Harrow Thur. a.m.
t- Anselm's Hall, Hatch End Thur. p.m.