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A cause for growing concern during the year has been the increase of
incidence of venereal disease, especially among the young. A joint working party
formed with Wandsworth was set up to try and evaluate methods of improving
the existing services.
The recruitment of a full time Health Education Officer during the year
has helped to promote the work of the directorate. Health Education embraces
a wide range of topics and extends to some extent to all sections of the public.
Lectures, Discussion Groups, Film Shows and Exhibitions are held at schools,
Clubs and in Libraries.
Perhaps what could have been one of the most disrupting events during
the year was the Directorate's move from Blue Star House in Brixton to new
office premises in Bromfelde Road, Stockwell. These consist of the old Annie
McCall Maternity Hospital building which has been entirely refurbished, and
the adjoining houses, numbers 37 and 39 Jeffrey's Road. 1 am delighted with
the ease and efficiency with which this major relocation was conducted.
Miss E.M. House, centre nursing officer in my Directorate, retired in April
after 25 years service, most of it with the fomer Lambeth District Nursing
Association. Apart from a period during the war years when she served in the
Queen Alexandras Imperial Nursing Service Reserve, she has spent the whole
of her working life in the nursing service in South_West London.
Miss G.M. Blake, School Nursing Sister at Stockwell School Treatment
Centre, retired from the Council's service on 30th November, 1971. A former
Nursing Sister for the L.C.C. Miss Blake transferred to the service of the new
London Borough of Lambeth in 1965.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Miss House, Miss Blake and
all members of staff who have served the Directorate and ensure the present high
standard of services.
May I express my gratitude to members of the Council and particularly
the Chairman and Members of the Health and Protection Committee for their
help and encouragement throughout the year. My thanks are also due to the
Chief Executive and my fellow Directors, to Dr. A.B. Stewart, Medical Adviser
Inner London Education Authority and his staff and to the hospital staffs and
general practitioners with whom the department is in frequent contact.
I am,
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your Obedient Servant,
A.L. THROWER
Director of Health Services.