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Since June 1972, Home Care,
has been available to all resi-
dents of Huron County and up
until March "31st last, 231 pat-
ients had received Home Care.
These included 2¢ patients from
Seaforth Community Hospital, 26
from Clinton Public Hospital,
17 from SouthHuron Hospital at •
Exeter, 37 from Alexandra and
marine Hospital, Goderich and 40.
from Wingham and. District Hos-
pital. Home Care allows them to
leave their hospital early and to
continue their convalescint care
at home.
In the same period, 47 patients
from Huron were admitted to
Home Care from their home,
thus avoiding admission to hos-
pital, and 38 patients were re-
ferred by attending physicians
from. hospitals in'London, Strat-
ford, Kitchener and Listowel.
Home Care must be requested
by the family physician and the
patient must require' Nursing
and/or Physiotherapy. Home-
making, drugs, dressings, hos-
pital equipment, may then be
pr'ovided. The care of each pat-
ient is individually decided, as
required by each patient and ac-
cording to the care 'requested
by the family physician.
Physiotherapy and Nursing, C are
may be provided as. long as the
patient is improving from these
services, but homemaking is
limited to 80 hours per patient.
If homemaking is still required
alternate arrangements are
made, either privately, or
through Social Services.Patients.
.,of any age can receive Home
Care and the costs are paid
by their O.H.I.P. insurance.
The youngest patient .was 10
years of age, during the past
year and the oldest was 93,
with 55 per cent of the patients
over 65. -
As •the services of Home Care
are arranged according to,indi-
vidual needs, not all patients
require all the services. During
the past year, 87 per cent re-
ceivedd Nursing Care r 31 per
cent received physiotherapy and
58 per cent received homemak-
ing. Home Care is a team effort
involving the patients, his family'
and friends, working with the
Nurse, Physiotherapist and
Homemaker, in providing the
care required. Any medical con-
dition may be accepted for Home
Care as long as the family and
patient are willing to participate
and adequate care can be pro-
vided.' •
By allowing the patient to
return home early or stay at
home while being treated or re-
covering from an illness, care
can be provided in the home
where the patient so often is
more comfortable and content
in familiar surroundings.
Cost of providing Home Care
to residents of Huron County
was $10.95 a day, during the
past fiscal year.
Item: Pale cotton candy, mint
green and powder blue are the
popular colors in women's spring
fashions.
Item:. Rubber-backed scatter
rugs can 'be dried in the dryer,
but never with heat. Use the
air setting only.
Item: Getting ready for the big
move? A good rule of thumb
is to wash, scrub, dust, polish or
otherwise clean before packing.
There is enough to do in a new
house without bringing "along
some of the dust and dirt from a
previous address.
ITEM: Air pollution costs the
average family $600 per year for
its damage to health, vegetation
'and resources. The deteriorating
• effects of alr pollution onfabrics
; has been estimated to be $1.5
billion a year.
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Scanning
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Weeklies
By
Lee Hee
In scanning the Blyth Standard we note in a report that
someone got a big kick out of a stupid trick last Thursday
night while Blyth Fire Chief, Irvine Bowes attended a
regular meeting of the Fire Department. Someone stole
the chief's car and later was found in Turnberry town-
ship burned Mr. and Mrs. Fred- Dunk attended the 67th
annual convention of the Ontario Horticultural Association
recently 'in Guelph. .They were delegates from District
of the Brussels society Hullett Township council will
request a meeting with Blyth Council over changes in
cost sharing at the Blyth-Hullett dump as proposed by
.the village council. Blyth recently suggested cost sharing
be adjusted from the 50-50 basis to ,a 60-40 basis with
Hullett paying the largest share.
The Zurich Citizen News reports that John Tinney, a
veteran councillor of Hay township, has been. named the
new Deputy-Reeve and Lloyd Mousseau, RR 2, Hensall
the new council member.. He succeeds th former deputy-
reeve, Harold. Campbell, following the sudden death of
Mr. Campbell two weeks ago,.... A Kitchener firm is
planning a 38-home sub-division in the south-east corner
of Zurich If plans follow the proposed schedule, a Farm-
/er's Market will be in operation in' the. Village on Saturday,
/ July 21st.
According to the wingham Advance-Times Mrs. Margaret
Fralick marked her 93rd birthday Mt. and Mrs. Gordon
Simmons marked their 50th wedding anniversary recently
at the home of their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Ken Simmons Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bain are the
new propietors of the Wingham. Fruit Market. The business
has been purchased from Mr. and. Mrs. George Farrish....
There was a large attendance at the fastball game at
Gorrie when the lights were officially, turned on for the
game in Gorrie Park A decorated knife used 59 years
ago to cut the wedding cake of Mrs. Frank Graham's mother
was back in use again, July 1st, on the occasion' of the
50th anniversary of the Higgins family reunion held at
Cadzon Park in St. Marys. Ninety-six signed the register.
The Mitchell Advocate reports that George Henderson
had a miraculous escape Sunday -when a bulk tank truck
_-owned by Stacey Bros. Ltd. rolled over presumably three
times. He 'was able to crawl away free of injury but the
damage to truck is estimated at $20,000. It carried some
27,000 pounds of mill milk. Some 8,000 pounds were
removed later Geraldine Moddejonge, 14, of Exeter
and' formerly of Kinkora was olne of five children re-
ceiving awards for act Of courage. She will be awarded
posthumously the Star of Courage, the second highest
award under the system of Canadian honors announced
May 31, 1972. She 'helped one girl to safety' but in her
attempt to rescue the second girl, in the struggle, both
were drowned. The mishap • occurred at the Parkhill Con-
servation Area David Bourne, who commenced work at
the Mitchell Post Office six years ago, has been appointed
postmaster at Tiverton.
According to the Goderich Signal-Star James 0. Fraser
will ,'have his license to sell Good Humor products from
.mobile units this summer in Goderich despite the fact
that Goderich Town Council voted at :Is June 21 meeting .
to deny Fraser the permit he requested, members learned
at last weeks meeting it had no legal right to withold the
license A 50 per cent reduction in the estimated cost
of lights at, the ball diamonds in Agricultural Park and
an unexpected discovery of money in the municipal budget,
new lights will be installed at the ball park. First estimate
was $14,000, new estimate was,$7,000 using the old poles
on July 4th a well-known and highly respected resident
of Colborne Township, Peter Bissett, marked 'his 90th
birthday on July 4th.
Private swimmirg pools in Clinton according to the
Clinton News-Record will be required to be fenced within
30 days as a result 'of. a bylaw passed by Clinton Council
last Monday night. Cohen was in full agreement that
the by-law was a necessity in order to protect both young
children and pool owners. There are 12 private pools
in Clinton.
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