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* Clinics which were in operation before 5.7.48 at which non-priority persons can be
accepted for treatment.
The total number of treatments carried out at Clinics during the year was 22,917, which
includes 4,519 given before the integration of the service on 1.10.65.
Domiciliary Chiropody.
This service is for house-bound persons, usually elderly, and is greatly appreciated. One
Domiciliary Chiropodist works in the Northern and the other in the Southern part of the Borough,
and between them they gave 1,828 domiciliary treatments in the year.
The total number of treatments given was 24,745.
Domiciliary 1,828
Clinics 22,917
Total 24,745
Recuperative Holidays.
Recuperative holidays where the emphasis is on rest, good food, and fresh air, are provided
for adults, including expectant and nursing mothers, and children. Arrangements for such
holidays for school children, at one of the Authority's Holiday Homes, are normally made by the
Medical Adviser to the Inner London Education Authority. The holidays are provided on medical
recommendations subject to approval by the Medical Officer of Health. The following table summarises
the arrangements made during the year:
Type of Case.
Admitted to Homes
during 1965
Being dealt with
at end of 1965
Expectant and Nursing Mothers 3 8
Other adults including tuberculous 93 51
persons
Psychiatric cases 10 4
Accompanied children 33 20
Unaccompanied children 129 87
(placed by I.L.E.A.)
Totals for the year: 268 170
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