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PART IV
GENERAL HEALTH AND WELFARE SERVICES
Ambulance Facilities
The London County Council is responsible under the National Health Service
Act. 1946 for the provision of ambulance facilities throughout the County.
Conferences
The Council was officially represented at the undermentioned Conferences:—
Conference Delegates
National Old People's Welfare Council, Mr. S. G. Bennett, Administrative
Eastbourne, 29th-31st March. Officer.
Royal Society of Health (Health Con- Councillor Mrs. E. O'K. Finn, M.B.E.,
gress), Scarborough, 9th-13th April. Dr. F. M. Day.
Association of Public Health Inspec- Mr. P. T. Bayes, Chief Public Health
tors, Southport, 11th-14th September. Inspector.
National Society for Clean Air, Councillor E. W. Flynn, Mr. P. T.
Harrogate, 9th-12th October. Bayes, Chief Public Health Inspector.
Royal Institute of Public Health and Mr. S. G. Bennett, Administrative
Hygiene, Eastbourne, 10th - 12th Officer.
October.
Financial Contributions to Voluntary Organisations
Subscriptions to the funds of voluntary bodies were, on the recommendation of
the Health Committee, made by the Council during the year as follows:—
Organisation Amount Statutory Authority
National Society for Clean Public Health (London) Act, 1936
Air £21 0 0 Section 298.
Local Government Act, 1948 Section
136.
Central Council for Health Public Health (London) Act, 1936
Education £14 17 0 Section 298.
R.o.S.P.A.
(Home Safety Section) £2 2 0 do
HEALTH EDUCATION
Campaign re Smoking and Lung Cancer
The Council decided, on the recommendation of the Health Committee, to
undertake a Cancer Campaign in Hammersmith. The campaign was timed to
commence with the issue of the Royal College of Physicians Report on Cancer
in March, 1962. Literature and posters were supplied to many firms in the
Borough as well as Youth Clubs and similar organisations. An article also
appeared in a programme at one of the games of a local professional football club
in the Borough, at which over 10,000 people attended, and posters were also sent
for display.