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Book marks incorporating information on various health
education subjects have also been distributed with the co-operation
of the Libraries Department.
Enamelled panels showing details of hospitals with times for
attendance where advice or treatment on Venereal Diseases can be
obtained, were renewed as necessary in the Council's Public
Conveniences.
The Council also continued to co-operate in the Health
publicity programme organised by the London County Council Health
Division III.
It may also be said that the character of the Health Centre
Building which houses the Public Health Department was designed
to inspire the conception of health among the many members of the
public who use it for one purpose or another.
Aged Persons:
The Council continued as in past years to take a very active
interest in work on behalf of old people during 1959.
The services available to men over 65 and women over 60
years included:
(i) Laundry Service:
This service was continued for the Chronic Sick who
were unable by reason of ill-health, senility etc, to keep
their personal and domestic laundry in a state of cleanliness
required to ensure a healthy environment. The articles are
collected on Monday, disinfected, checked and sent to a
commercial laundry, returned again, checked and redelivered
on Friday or Saturday of the same week. A varying number
of about 45 to 50 persons have in this way been enabled to
retain their clothes and bedlinen in a wholesome condition.
(ii) Holiday Scheme:
The Council continued this service designed to
preserve the Health of the elderly by allowing those
sufficiently able to do so to benefit from a stay of two
weeks in the country or at the seaside. Applications were
invited by public announcement and through variously
ested clubs and societies: such applications were made to
the Health Department. Each applicant was required to
contribute a small sum towards the cost, normally ten
shillings per week, but varied slightly in some cases.
Arrangements were then made for the holiday at one or other
of the holiday homes run by voluntary organisations.