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V. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES
SERVICES TRANSFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT
With the formation of the Social Services Department, services hitherto operated
by the Health Department were transferred to that department on the 1st April 1971
Transferred services comprised the following -
Mental Health
Day Nursery and Child Minding
Home Help
Family Casework
Invalid Meals
Recuperative Holidays
Tuberculosis Welfare Services
Staff transferred numbered 127 officers and 300 employees andpremses included
4 day nurseries, 2 mental health training centres and 1 day centre New premises
under construction included a day nursery an adult training centre for the mentally
handicapped and a hostel for mentally subnormal adults
Another transfer which took place on 1st April 1971 was that of the Junior
Training School for severely subnormal children from the responsibi1ity of the Council
to The Inner London Education Authority The school. now known as the Beatrice Tate
School was completed by the Council in December 1969, and provides places for 115
children Staff transferred with the school numbered 17 teaching and other staff and
7 employees,
ACCIDENTS IN THE HOME
The powers and duties of the Council under the Home Safety \ct 1961, relating to
the dissemination of information and advice for promoting safety in the home and
encouraging proper precautions against accidents, are exercisable by the Health Committee,
Health education for the prevention of home accidents has continued throughout the
year, with particular reference both to those groups at greatest risk and to the most
prevalent causes ,
Inquests were held during the year on 7 fatalities in the borough arising from
accidents which occurred in the home, including 1 fromafall.l from poisoning 2 from
asphyxia and 3 following outbreaks of fire. Many children were admitted to hospital
or treated as out patients after swallowing medicines in tablet or capsule form,
Special publicity is arranged each year regarding home accident prevention
including the necessity for preventing medicines and other dangerous materials from
being accessible to children and for precautions to be taken during the "firework"
season The number of people treated in hospital in England and Wales in 1971 for
-57-