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Since 1st January 1960 a directly-provided service
has been operating, this being integrated with the Domestic
Help Service and controlled by the two full-time Organisers
under the general direction of the Area Medical Officer. The
six night attendants employed by the Ilford Social Service
Association were offered appointments, three of whom
accepted.
INVALID DAY ATTENDANCE SERVICE.- The arrangement
with the Ilford Social Service Association for
providing day attendants in approved cases to sit with sick
and infirm persons who cannot afford to meet the charge
made by the Ilford Social Service Association, the County
Council making agreed payments to the Association, has
continued. Details of the cases dealt with under this arrangement
are as follows:-
No. of cases being attended at 31.12.58 1
No. of new cases attended during 1959 11
No. of cases discontinued during 1959 12
No. of cases being attended at 31.12.59 Nil
Total number of attendances given:-
(a) whole days 149
(b) half days 76
HOME NURSING.- The Home Nursing Service in
Ilford is undertaken by Nurses under the supervision of the
Superintendent of the Lady Rayleigh Training Home at
Leytonstone but operating from the Branch Home "Abury
House" in Aldborough Road, Ilford.
The work undertaken by Home Nurses in the Ilford
area in 1959 was as follows:-
Cases attended 2,089
Visits paid 59,815
HEALTH EDUCATION.- Dr. G.B. Taylor, Assistant
County Medical Officer, reports:-
"Health Education is constantly going on in the
ante-natal clinics, post-natal clinics, infant welfare
centres. In these clinics individual advice is given
and it is this personal advice which is the most
effective means of conveying medical information.
These centres therefore are of primary importance