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Number of Home Helps available for general cases.
Permanent full-time Home Helps employed on 31st December, 1952 12
Part-time Home Helps employed at 31st December, 1952 108
Average hours worked per week per part-time Home Help 26.6
Total number of hours worked by Home Helps (approx.) 152,059
(On the basis of a 44 hour week, this is equivalent to 66.4
full-time Home Helps throughout the year).
Tuberculosis.
Number of new applicants l6
Number transferred from 1951 17
33
Number of Home Helps available to work in tuberculous households
at 31st December, 1952 6
Maternity.
Number of applications received 47
Number withdrawn 18
29
Each maternity case is normally allotted 62 hours service during the two weeks
following confinement. After reference to the Chairman two cases received full-time
Home Help of 80 hours over the two weeks. Two other cases received less than 62 hours
service, as both were admitted to hospital.
Home Helps gave 1,488 hours service to maternity cases during the year, which
was equivalent to 0.68 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 2,724
Visits to Home Helps 199
Maternity Cases
Visits to Applicants and Recipients 94
Visits to Home Helps 27
Tuberculosis
Applicants 123
3,167
Office Consultations - Applicants and Home Helps 5,301
Illness or infirmity leading to need for Home Help.
Heart and circulation 73
Miscellaneous 57
Respiratory conditions 33
Rheumatism, Arthritis, etc 54
Senility 42
Tuberculosis l6
Hemiplegia, Paralysis, Thrombosis, etc 22
Cancer 15
Accidents - broken limbs, etc., 26
Illnesses connected with pregnancy 10
Post Operative 17
Diabetes 7
Blind 5
60