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assistance to every case requiring it; this can only be achieved by allocating
most of the helps to two or three cases in a day.
The following is a summary of the cases dealt with in 1963:—
Number of applications received for assistance 1,594
Number of cases where domestic helps were
provided (including 944 who were having service
at the commencement of the year) 2,144
Number of cases which on investigation were
either not eligible for assistance or did not
require the service 146
Cases booked but subsequently cancelled 54
Cases cancelled before investigation 83
Number of cases where, at the end of the year,
a domestic help was booked to attend in
future months (maternity cases) 77
Other cases awaiting help at end of year 20
Enquiries incomplete at end of year 14
Cases being served at 31st December, 1963 1,087
The County Council have authorised the provision of free domestic
help service in all cases where a doctor certifies an expectant mother as
suffering from toxaemia of pregnancy and such assistance is medically
necessary. During 1963 service was given in three cases under this
arrangement.
Three training courses of two weeks' duration, were held by the
County Council at Chelmsford in 1963. Four domestic helps from Ilford
attended and all were found to be entirely satisfactory.
Towards the end of the year, following discussions with the Essex
County Council's Domestic Help Organiser, arrangements were made for
each Domestic Help to attend an In-service Training Course to be held in
Ilford.
Each course would consist of six sessions to be held at the Cecil
Hall, Granville Road, Ilford on Tuesday afternoons between 2 and 4.30 p.m.
The first course commenced on 7th January, 1964.