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 Croydon]
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LOAN OF NURSING EQUIPMENT
The Corporation lends equipment and makes a small weekly charge, with exemption for incomes below a certain figure 1968
Health Dept. | British Red Cross Society | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Central (A) | Purley (A) | Coulsdon (B) | Selsdon (B) | Shirley (B) | ||
Air Rings | 86 | 23 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 1 |
Bed Blocks | 8 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
Bed pans | 118 | 50 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 7 |
Bed rests | 113 | 40 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 8 |
Bedsteads | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Bed tables | 6 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 |
Commodes | 207 | 73 | 28 | - | 4 | 8 |
Cradles | 91 | 31 | 12 | 13 | 2 | 4 |
Crutches | 10 | 16 | 4 | 5 | - | - |
Diapers | 210 | - | - | - | - | - |
Douche cans | - | - | - | 2 | - | - |
Dunlopillo Mattresses | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
Enuresis Machines | 94 | - | - | - | - | - |
Feeding cups | 8 | 3 | 2 | - | 3 | - |
Foam squares | 6 | - | - | - | - | - |
Foot suction pumps | 9 | - | - | - | - | - |
Fracture boards | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Hydraulic Hoists | 7 | - | - | - | - | - |
Incontinence pads | 370,38 | - | - | - | - | - |
Inhalers | - | - | - | 2 | - | - |
Kidney bowls | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Mackintosh sheets | 70 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
North pads | 26 | - | - | - | - | - |
Paddi pads | 238 | - | - | - | - | - |
Paddi rolls | 1,882 | - | - | - | - | - |
Pick-up-stick | - | 2 | - | - | - | - |
Plastic sheets | 21 | - | - | - | - | - |
Protective Under-garments | 160 | - | - | - | - | - |
Pulleys | 6 | - | - | - | - | - |
Hippie beds | 43 | - | - | - | - | - |
Toilet rail | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Toilet seat | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Urinals | 57 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 1 |
Walking aids | 96 | 21 | - | - | - | - |
Walking sticks | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 |
Wheelchairs | 70 | 113 | 17 | 8 | - | 8 |