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(i) Home Helps,
Home Helps are employed to provide domestic help for households
"where such help is required owing to the presence of any person who
is ill, lying-in, an expectant mother, mentally defective, aged, or
a child not over compulsory school age,"A charge is usually made
for this service "but in assessing what the charge should be consideration
is given to the means of the persons concerned,
(j) Prevention of Illness, Care and After-Care.
The care and after-care of tuberculous persons is dealt with by
the Care Almoner at the Chest Clinic, Queen's Road, Kingston-uponThames.
Among other things, the County Council scheme provides for
the admission of persons, not in need of medical or nursing care, to
recuperative holiday homes and for this a charge is made according to
the persons' circumstances.
(k) Mental Health.
Under the Mental Health Act, 1959, Local Health Authorities are
now empowered and in certain circumstances required to provide the
following services concerning the after-care of patients discharged
from mental hospitals:-
1. Residential accommodation,
2. Occupational and/or Training Centres.
3. Mental Welfare Officers.
4. Guardianships.
5. Necessary ancillary or supplementary services,
6. Care and training of school children of compulsory school age
not considered suitable on medical grounds to attend any sort
of school.
The office of the Mental Welfare (Duly Authorised) Officer for
the Borough is at 35, Coombe Road, Kingston-upon-Thames (Kingston
3302).
Surrey County Council - Education Department.
The School Health Service is staffed by the County Health Department
and provides the following services:-
(a) Routine medical inspection of pupils.
(b) Cleanliness surveys of pupils.
(c) Dental inspection of pupils.
(d) Ascertainment of handicapped pupils in need of special
education.