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Home Dialysis
Adaptations were completed during the year at the home of a patient for
whom an application for the provision of home dialysis facilities was received
towards the end of 1969. Three new applications for the provision of such facilities
were received during 1970; one from Guy's Hospital and two from Lambeth
Hospital. One of the patients concerned was rehoused in a property suitable for
adaptation and the work was completed during May but. unfortunately, the patient
died four months later. Adaptations to the homes of the other two patients were
still in progress at the end of 1970.
Mobile Health Pilot Clinic
The health screening survey of Southwark residents between the ages of
16 and 60 by means of a mobile health clinic proceeded throughout the year.
The mobile clinic continued to be of considerable interest to visitors from
various parts of Britain; special visits to view the clinic were also arranged
for doctors from countries as far apart as America, Ceylon and Japan.
On 29th January, to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the
Salomon's Centre at Guy's Hospital, a lecture entitled "Preventive Medicine in
Southwark - Present and Future" was given by me, highlighting the increasingly
important role of community medicine.
The film "Put to the Test" which was produced in 1969 by Granada Television
for its "World in Action" series and which illustrates the work undertaken
by Southwark's mobile health clinic, was shown to the invited audience and the
mobile health clinic was put on display within the hospital grounds.
In February, a Keystone Vision Screener was added to the clinic's equipment
and this greatly facilitated the speed and accuracy with which sight testing
could be carried out. Also at this stage, a routine inspection of the mobile
clinic by the local Fire Prevention Officer was arranged to ensure that appropriate
fire safety precautions were being taken.
For one week at the end of April, the mobile health clinic was displayed
at the Royal Society of Health Congress Exhibition at Eastbourne. Great interest
in the clinic and its work was shown and it was estimated that more than 400
visitors, including delegates from Canada, Denmark, Germany, Holland and
Japan, inspected the clinic during the period of the exhibition.
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