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INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATES OF VACCINATION
Certificates of recent successful vaccination/inoculations are required by
persons travelling to certain countries abroad.
After completion by the vaccination doctor (normally the person's own doctor)
the certificate must be taken or sent for authentication of the doctor's signature
by the Medical Officer of Health for the area in which the doctor practises.
In Lambeth, signatures on certificates are authenticated in the Health
Department, Blue Star House, 234/244, Stockwell Road, S.W.9.
TUBERCULOSIS
The Council is responsible for the services for the prevention of tuberculosis
and the care and after-care of tuberculous patients in the community. These services
are carried out in conjunction with the chest clinics provided by the Regional
Hospital Boards and the Boards of Governors of teaching hospitals and are under
the general supervision of the chest physician.
The Council either employs directly or pays the full cost of T.B. Health
Visitors who are based at the chest clinics.
There were 4,018 patients on chest clinic registers at 31st December 1968.
The T.B. Health Visitors made 3,409 effective home visits and 55 patients
received extra nourishment or other benefits.
The Council is responsible for Knights Hill Hostel for homeless infective
tuberculous men, which provides 29 places. It is extensively used by other Inner
London Boroughs, there being only three such hostels in London.
B.C.G. Vaccination against tuberculosis is undertaken both at the chest
clinics, which normally deal with contacts, and by the Council's doctors in
schools. The protection is offered to all 13 year old school children each year
and during the period 398 contacts and 2,078 school children were vaccinated.
HEALTH VISITING
The health visiting service is provided by the Council under Section 24 of
the National Health Service Act 1946.
The work has many facets, embracing directly or indirectly all the social
services provided for every member of the family. The health visitor maintains
close liaison with social workers, general practitioners and hospitals. Other
duties include attendance at ante-natal, post-natal, and child welfare clinics,
running mothercraft and relaxation classes and the important function of health
education practised in the home, clinics and schools.