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45
Miscellaneous Matters.
Conferences.
The Council were officially represented at the undermentioned
Conferences dealing with matters within the purview of the Public
Health Department.
Conference
Central Council for Health
Education, London — 24th
January.
Greater London and Middlesex
Home Safety Committee
(Area 10); "Home
Safety and Accident Prevention
Wood Green—
16th March.
Royal Society of Health,
Eastbourne—29th April to
3rd May.
Association of Public Health
Inspectors, Eastbourne -—
24th to 27th September.
Royal Institute of Public
Health and Hygiene, Harrogate—25th
to 27th September.
National Society for Clean
Air, Scarborough—8th to
11th October.
Royal Society for the Prevention
of Accidents;
"Home Safety"; London
—10th and 11th October.
Central Council for the
Disabled, London— 18th
December.
Delegates
Aid. Mrs. E. A. Cooper, J.P.
Mrs. M. Richards, Visitor.
Cllr. Miss E. A. Coles, J.P., and
the Medical Officer of Health.
Cllr. G. Whitehead and Miss A.
Jones, Public Health Inspector.
Cllr. Miss E. A. Coles, J.P., and
the Medical Officer of Health.
Aid. Mrs. E. A. Cooper, J.P., and
Mr. I. R. Lewis, Factories and
Workshops Inspector.
Cllr. Miss G. A. Morgan.
Qlr. Dr. J. Fairlee.
Care of Old People,
The steady expansion in services for the old people of the Borough
hascontinued during 1963, but I am still not entirely happy that we are
reaching all cases of old people who are in need of help. Aged persons
are still found living in unsatisfactory conditions, and not only lacking
but often actively refusing, care and attention from the outside world,
but I am happy to say that such cases are becoming fewer in number,
and this opinion is reinforced by the fact that no resort has been made
to compulsory removal under Section 47 of the National Assistance Act,
1948, during the past year.