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WELFARE OF THE BUND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED
Home visits are made by visitors attached to the L.C.C.
Welfare Department, 5, Princes Row, Victoria, S.W.1. VIC 0162.
WELFARE OF OTHER HANDICAPPED PERSONS
Welfare services for handicapped persons, other than
the blind, are dealt with at 5, Princes Row, Victoria, S.W.1.
VIC 0162.
Accommodation - Welfare Home. Officers on the staff of
Luxborough Lodge, Luxborough Street, W.1. (WEL 5619) deal with
applications for residential accommodation for persons in need
of care and attention not otherwise available to them and visit
homes of the applicants.
Welfare Office for the Homeless. Applications for temporary
residential accommodation for homeless families should be made
to the L.C.C. Welfare Office, 12, Northumberland Avenue, W.C.2.
(WHI 8907). After office hours applications should be made to
Newington Lodge, 182, Westmoreland Road, S.E.17. (ROD 4201).
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
Applications regarding cases of urgent mental illness
should be made to:-
The Duly Authorised Officer, County Hall, S.E.1.
Telephone number during office hours WATerloo 5000 Ext. 273.
Telephone number after office hours WATerloo 5000 Ext. 7005.
Correspondence should be addressed to the Medical Officer of
Health (B.2), London County Council, County Hall, S.E.1.
Particulars of persons who are alleged to be suffering
from mental deficiency should be referred to the Medical Officer
of Health (B.1), London County Council, County Hall, S.E.1.
WATerloo 5000 Extension 6206.
Psychiatric Preventive Care and After-care of patients who
are not in need of out-patient or in-patient psychiatric
treatment is dealt with by the Medical Officer of Health
(PH/B.1(f)) London County Council, County Hall, S.E.1.
WATerloo 5000 Extension 7178.