View report page

Maternity.
Number of applications received 64
Number withdrawn 30
34
Each maternity case Is normally allotted 62 hours service during the two weeks
following confinement. After reference to the Chairman one case received full-time Home
Help of 94 hours over the two weeks.
Home Helps gave 2,104 hours service to maternity cases during the year, which was
equivalent to0.84 full-time Home Helps continuously employed. Many of the maternity Home
Helps were engaged for a particular case only, after careful enquiry In each instance by
the Home Help Organiser.
Home Visits of Home Help Organiser and her Assistants.
General Cases
Visits to Applicants and Recipients 2,682
Visits to Home Helps 233
Maternity Cases
Visits to Applicants and Recipients 120
Visits to Home Helps 51
3.086
Office Consultations - Applicants and Home Helps
Illness or Infirmity leading to need for Home Help.
Heart and circulation 89
Miscellaneous 58
Respiratory conditions 34
Rheumatism, Arthritis, etc 43
Senility 40
Tuberculosis 23
Hemiplegia, Paralysis, Thrombosis, etc. 23
Cancer 20
Accidents - broken limbs, etc. 17
Illnesses connected with pregnancy 15
Post Operative 14
Diabetes 10
Blind 8
The total volume of service given during the year has again increased, but while the
old people and the tuberculous have shared the benefit, the mothers confined at home, or
sick on account of some illness associated with or complicating pregnancy, have made less
use of the service than during the two previous years.
The number of applications for mataernity home help has dropped from 112 In 1950 to
64 In 1951; and even of these, only 34 ultimately accepted a Home Help. To them may be
added 15 cases In which Home Help was provided on account of illness connected with
Pregnancy. These cases formed a very small proportion of the 667 domiciliary confinements
47