London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Camberwell 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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Index No.of
Authority or
Organisation
Old People (continued) -
Home Nursing 1
Housing 6
Meals 10, 12, 17
Night sitters-in 1, 10
Pensions 8
Recreation 1, 10, 17
Residential accommodation 2
Visiting 5, 10, 12, 17
Welfare 1, 2, 5, 10
Persons in need -
Financial assistance 7
Homeless persons 2, 20
Reception Centres 2
Re-establishment Centres 7
Rehabilitation Units 2
Physically handicapped persons -
Appliances and adaptations in the home 7
Disability Pensions 8
Welfare arrangements 2
Probation Service 23
Rodent Control (rats and mice) 5
Sickness -
Ambulance Service 4
Home Helps 1
Home Nursing 1
Hospitals 9
Medical practitioners 8
National insurance payments 8
Night sitters-in 1
Recuperative holidays 1
Sick room appliances, loan of 16
Vermin eradication (bugs, lice, fleas, etc.) 5