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Helps must be transferred without warning from patients who feel
that they cannot manage without. Such occurrences could not be
avoided without very excessive expenditure.
However, in spite of difficulties a great deal of most helpful
work has been carried out during the year and this service through'
out the country must be easing the very difficult situation as regards
hospital beds.
I feel that the present policy is the right one, namely to provide
as efficient and useful a service as possible, having regard to reason'
able economy; and to provide a Home Help at a household where
help is required owing to the presence of:—-"any person who is ill,
lying-in or an expectant mother, mentally defective, aged, child not
over compulsory school age within the meaning the Education Act,
1944."