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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
West Ham 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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SECTION 29: DOMESTIC HELP
The following is a summary of the work undertaken by the service during the year:-
Visits by Organiser and her Assistants 3, 685
Number of Cases assisted:
Confinements 16
Tuberculosis 26 l,l6l
General Sickness, including Aged and Infirm *1,119 )
* 70 Per cent of the applicants to whom home helps were
supplied for the first time during the year were 70
years or older.
Staff
Pull-time Home Helps 5
Part-time Home Helps 120
Total number of Hours worked 196,986
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