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HEALTH CENTRES
Work continued throughout the year on the construction of the Council's firs
comprehensive health centre at Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, S.E.23, which will be
named Jenner Health Centre. It is hoped that the centre will open in the autumn
of 1971.
In June the Health Committee confirmed proposals to provide a second compre
hensive health centre within the area to the north of New Cross Road, S.E.14, know
as the Adolphus Street Housing Area. The proposed site for the centre is between
Amersham Vale and Stanley Street. This centre is being planned to provide con
suiting facilities for six general medical practitioners, an Inner London Education
Authority Child Guidance Clinic and a full range of local health authority services
including dentistry, chiropody and family planning. It is not expected that this
centre will open before 1975.
During the past three years consideration has been given to the provision of
small purpose-built health centre in the Honor Oak area to replace the accommodate
tion at present occupied in Spalding House, S.E.4. At the beginning of the year
agreement was reached for a site to be made available on a plot of land off Turnhan
Road, and plans are now in hand for the erection of a small health centre which will
provide consulting facilities for two general medical practitioners and local health
authority services which will include family planning. It is hoped that this centre
will open during 1973.
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