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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
Hammersmith 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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Table 54. Family Casework for 1965
| Families receving casebook on 1.1.65 | 18 |
| Families receving casebook on 19565 | 17 |
| Total | 35 |
| Families still receving casebook on 1.1.65 | 24 |
| Families which ceased to have casework help during 1965 for these reasons: | |
| A. Satlsfractory - no further need | 3 |
| B. Unable to benefit | 5 |
| C. Break-up of family | 2 |
| D. Eviction of family | 1 |
| Total | 11 |
| Casework help available during 1965 was equivalent of l'/j caseworkers i.e. one full-time caseworker and two part-time caseworkers giving approximately a quarter of a working week each. | |
| Approved case-load is 10—15 families. Families referred by: | |
| Education Department (Divisional School Care Organiser) | 10 |
| G.L.C. Housing Department (Divisonal School Care Organiser) | 6 |
| Metropolitan Borough Housing Dept. before 1.4.65 | 6 |
| Ministry of Pensions | 1 |
| General Practitioner | 1 |
| Psychiatric Social Worker | 1 |
| Principal Nursing Officer | 6 |
| Principal Mental Health Social Worker | 1 |
| Chief Public Health Inspector | 1 |
| Medical Officer | 1 |
| Administrative Officer | 1 |
| Total | 35 |
Table 55. Welfare Services—National Assistance Act, 1948. Persons in residential accommodation on 31st December 1965:
| Persons (exclusive of staff) residing in: | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Council residential homes in which the number of beds is | Accommodation provided on behalf of the Council byVoluntary organisations | Total | ||||
| less than 35 | 35.70 | over 70 | ||||
| a | b | c | d | e | ||
| Not materially handicapped | Elderly | 20 | 71 | — | 103 | 194 |
| Others | 1 | 2 | — | — | 3 | |
| Handicapped, including blind, deaf, epileptic and others. | Elderly | 4 | 49 | 66 | 48 | 167 |
| Others | — | — | 3 | 38 | 41 | |
| Mentally —andicapped | Elderly | — | 5 | 14 | 5 | 24 |
| Others | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | |
| Grand Total | 25 | 127 | 83 | 196 | 431 | |
Number of homes in which
these persons resided
1
3
1
| Persons accommodated on behalf of other Councils & included above | Elderly | Others |
| 9 | — | |
| Persons accommodated by other Councils for London Borough of Hammersmith | 242 | 1 |
(115)