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 Camberwell.
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Rye Lane and Hanover Park Treatment Centre, 7, Hanover Park,
S.E.15.
Vision. —Tuesday, Thursday, 9.30 a.m. (Optician attends
Thursday, 10 a.m.)
Aural. —Alternate Tuesdays, 2 p.m. (Operations—Thursday,
2 p.m.)
Minor Ailments.—Monday, alternate Thursdays, 3 p.m.
Dental. —Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
9.30 a.m. Monday, alternate Tuesdays, Thursday, alternate
Fridays, 1.30 p.m. Gas —Alternate Tuesdays,
Wednesday, alternate Fridays, 1.30 p.m.
Minor ailments nursing treatment at the School Treatment
Centres after morning and afternoon school, and on Saturday
mornings. Day and time of doctor's attendance shown above.
Hospitals.
The following London County Council Hospitals are situated
within the Borough of Camberwell: —
St. Giles' Hospital: containing 810 beds. The Council lease
two Maternity Wards in this Hospital—12 beds.
Dulwich Hospital: containing 733 beds.
Maudsley Hospital (Neurological): containing 242 beds.
Transfer of Powers (London) Order, 1933.
Section 64 of the Local Government Act, 1929, confers upon
the Minister of Health power to make an Order on the application
being made by the London County Council transferring or delegating
to Metropolitan Borough Councils any functions at present
exercisable by the County Council, other than Poor Law functions.
In the exercise of this power the Minister of Health made the
above Order which came into operation on April Ist, 1933, transferring
the following public health functions and powers at present
exercised by the London County Council to the Metropolitan
Borough Councils, viz.:—
Common Lodging Houses. —The registration, licensing, inspection
and regulation of common lodging houses, and the enforcement of
by-laws relating to such common lodging houses, but exclusive of
the power of making by-laws, which power will remain vested in
the London County Council.
Cowhouses and Places for the Keeping of Cows. —The functions
under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, of licensing dairymen
to use premises as a cowhouse or place for the keeping of cows.
Slaughterhouses and Knackers' Yards. —The functions under
Section 20 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and Section
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