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Health Department,
Municipal Offices,
Castle House,
2 Walworth Road, SE1 6SU
To The Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors,
London Borough of Southwark.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour of presenting my Annual Report on the health services
of the London Borough of Southwark for the year 1970.
1970 was a year in which the health services continued to develop and
several new projects were completed. One of these projects was the Tuke Junior
Training School which provided facilities for 95 sub-normal children and a
special care unit for 20 mentally and physically handicapped children. The
Education (Handicapped Children) Act received royal assent during the year
and this new building will from 1st April 1971 be transferred to the Inner London
Education Authority.
The Health Committee, were aware of the high risk of flooding particularly
in the northern part of the Borough, and agreed to the purchase of two dinghies
as "flood aids" which would facilitate the Department's activities in the event
of an emergency.
As a result of a request by the Royal Society of Health, the mobile health
clinic was on display at the Royal Society of Health Congress held at Eastbourne
in April. The accompanying staff answered many questions raised by the delegates
and numerous enquiries were later received within the Department regarding
the setting-up of our scheme.
The Local Authority Social Services Act received royal assent in 1970.
The services the Health Committee have developed in recent years which will
be transferred to the new Social Services Committee include mental health, day
nurseries, playgroups and child-minders. Of course it may be some time before
the new Social Services Department is in a position to accept responsibility for
all the services due for transfer.
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