Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]
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Equipment | Number 1969 | Loaned 1970 |
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Cutlery | 23 | |
Egg Cups | 5 | |
Feeding Cups | 6 | |
Food Guards | 2 | |
Easi-Carri | 11 | |
Zimmer Patient Lifter | — | |
Handy Spring Pole | 3 | |
Lifter-Penryn | 19 | |
Dunlopillo | 27 | |
Easi-nurse | 4 | |
Hair | 8 | |
Mattress Covers | — | 32 |
P.C.P | 7 | |
Premature Baby | 5 | |
Cantilever | 3 | |
Overbed | 6 | |
Raised Toilet Seats | 46 | |
Toilet Aid (Easi-fit) | 4 | |
Toilet Air Rings | 2 | |
Toilet Aid (Zimmer) | 38 | |
Toilet Seat, Inflatable | 3 | |
Elbow Crutches | 12 | |
Quadruped Aid | 7 | |
Tripod Aid | 39 | |
Walking Aid Trolley | — | 10 |
Walking Frames | 260 | |
Walking Sticks | 124 | |
Indoor | 89 | |
Outdoor | 183 | |
Total Issues | 3,441 |
The Council's scheme of temporary loan of outdoor wheelchairs
is essentially designed to provide a recreational facility for homebound
old people. The period of the loan is restricted to two
months at a time. After this, the applicant's name is placed again
on the waiting list and he/she is eligible to receive a further loan
as soon as a wheelchair becomes available. Persons who are in
permanent need of an outdoor wheelchair may be provided with
one by the Department of Health and Social Security on the recommendation
of a Hospital Consultant.