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MATERNITY. CHILD WELFARE & OTHER SERVICES (Continued)
Health Visitors are available at the Centre for interview
daily from 9 a.m. to 10.15 a.m. and from 4..30 p.m. to 5 p.m. and
during these times may be contacted by telephone (FLAxman 8387).
A Welfare Foods Department, whereat National Dried Milk,
Orange Juice and Cod Liver Oil may be obtained functions at the
above Centre from 1.30 p.m. to 4.4.5 p.m. (Monday to Friday);
closed on Saturday.
"PART III" ACCOMMODATION
A local authority is required, under Section 21 of the National
Assistance Act, 1948, to provide -
(a) residential accommodation for persons who by reason of age,
infirmity or any other circumstances are in need of care and attention
which is not available to them, and
(b) temporary accommodation for persons who are in great need
thereof, being need arising in circumstances which could not
reasonably have been foreseen, or in such circumstances as the
authority may in any particular case determine.
One institution - "King's Mead", Dovehouse Street is maintained
by the London County Council in the Borough as "Part III" accommodation,
and they are, in this particular respect, "the local authority".
It was considered essential to arrange for the reception of
7 persons in such accommodation during 1959, and in all cases
admissions were made .at "King's Mead". Recourse to legal action
was, happily, only necessary in one instance to enforce removal to
hospital as indicated in Section 47 of the Act, as amended by the
National Assistance (Amendment) Act,1951. However, in a small
number of the cases concerned, transfers were only effected after
considerable persuasion.
The London County Council assumes responsibility for the safe
custody of the belongings of persons accommodated, thus removing
any grounds for anxiety. Reasonable notice is always given to
the County authorities of impending removals.