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TRAVELLING EXPENSES OF RELATIVES VISITING
HOSPITAL PATIENTS.- As in previous years, the County
Medical Officer was able to give financial assistance in 1959
only in very special cases to enable them to visit relatives
who were in hospital; no Ilford persons, however, applied
for assistance under this scheme.
EXAMINATION OF OFFICERS AND SERVANTS.The
following medical examinations by Essex County Council
staff were carried out during 1959:-
Entrants to County Council Service 30
Other purposes 9
For other Authorities 6
INVALID NIGHT ATTENDANCE SERVICE.- The
experimental scheme operating in conjunction with the Ilford
Social Service Association for the provision of night attendants
to provide some relief for those people called upon to
sit up constantly all night with sick relatives or friends, or
to help sick persons with no one to whom to turn for such
assistance, continued until the 30th November 1959, the
County Council making agreed payments to the Association
in respect of approved cases where need in meeting the cost
of the service provided by the Association’s night attendants
was proved. The following are the details of the cases dealt
with under this scheme during 1959:-
No. of cases being attended at 31.12.58 Nil
No. of new cases attended during 1959 12
No. of cases discontinued during 1959 10
Total number of attendances given 201
The County Council decided that as from 1st December
1959 a directly-provided night attendant service should
be operated throughout the whole of the Administrative
County as part of the Health Area Services. As it was not
practicable to take over from that date from the Ilford
Social Service Association who had been running this service
for many years, the Association agreed to continue to provide
on behalf of the County Council the necessary attendance
during the month of December 1959; in that month attendance
was continued for a total of 26 nights at the two cases who
were already having a night attendant at the 30th November,
no new cases arising; service was discontinued in these two
cases before the end of December 1959.