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and the Nursing Sisters of St. John the Divine.
Section 26
Approval was being sought at the end of the year to proposals for the implementation
of a scheme for measles vaccination restricted to children between the ages of 10 months
and 2 years. Payment will be made to general practitioners who supply completed records
of children vaccinated.
Section 28 - Prevention, Care and After-care
(i) Mental Health
Expansion of the service included extended use of Pritchard's Road Adult Day Centre
for the mentally ill to include psycho-geriatric patients on two days a week; the
domiciliary occupational therapist continues with supervision of their home activities.
The local 'Peter Pan' branch of the National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children
now holds its evening club once weekly on these premises. Working drawings have been
prepared for early submission to the Ministry of Health in support of loan sanction for
the provision of a 115-place junior training centre to include a special unit for twenty
severely subnormal youngsters.
The established close working with St. Clement's Hospital has continued. With the
formation of an academic psychiatric unit at the London Hospital, schemes to co-ordinate
all psychiatric services in the borough are under discussion. Catchment areas are being
reviewed to arrange if possible that, in addition to the E.3 and E.14 postal districts
at present allocated to St. Clement's, the remaining districts of the borough, E.1. and
E.2, will be provided for by hospital beds in the area. This will obviate, except for
a few psycho-geriatric and long-term cases, the necessity for patients to be transferred
to Long Grove, Epsom. Any further proposals must include more provision of psychogeriatric
beds in the borough either in hospital and/or local authority Part III accommodation.
It will be noted that the borough's Ten-year Health and Welfare Programme does
include provision of a 40-bed home for mentally disturbed old people.
(ii) Tuberculosis
The well-documented higher incidence of tuberculosis in Asiatic immigrants receiyed
consideration when, prior to and during visits of the Mass Radiography Unit to certain
wards of the borough, an intensive campaign of persuasion to co-operate was carried out
by the Health Education Officer working with field workers from both voluntary and statutory
organisations. This is to be continued in association with other activities of
the East London Council for Citizens, affiliated to the National Committee for Commonwealth
Immigrants.
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