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In April the Ministry of Health authorised the administration of
fourth (re-inforcing) doses to children between the ages of five and
twelve, and 6,538 children were given such doses.
PREVENTION OF ILLNESS, CARE AND AFTER CARE
(Section 28)
Recuperative Holidays
The Area health staff continued to be responsible for dealing
with applications for recuperative holidays and during 1961 180
applications were received compared with 176 the previous year.
Of these, 164 were approved.
Chiropody Service
Following approval of the Ministry of Health to the Local
Authority's proposal for the extension of the Chiropody Service under
Section 28 of the National Health Service Act 1946, the establishment
of chiropodists for this Area was increased to two. Hitherto we had
employed chiropodists in the School Health Service for five sessions
a week and in February one of the existing chiropodists increased her
sessions by two a week to enable a clinic to be established at the
Welfare Centre, 162 Stroud Green Road for the treatment mainly of
old people.
At the end of the year in spite of all efforts it had been
impossible to increase the number of sessions further, but early in
1962 another chiropodist was appointed for two sessions a week which
enabled a weekly session to be held at the Fortis Green Welfare
Centre and another session at the Hornsey Town Hall Clinic, both
devoted mainly to treatment of old people.