London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Maintenance
After allowing for Government grant the services administered by the Public Health department cost the London ratepayer a rate of 9id. in the £. This was divided as follows:—
| d. | |
|---|---|
| London ambulance service | 1.07 |
| Domiciliary midwifery service | .39 |
| Mental health | .29 |
| Maternity and child welfare | 1.68 |
| Day nurseries | 1.78 |
| School health | 1.23 |
| Clinics, centres and divisional offices | .03 |
| After-care and other preventive services (home nursing, domestic help, care of tuberculous, etc.) | 2.28 |
| General health services | .83 |
| 9.58 |
The gross cost of the various services in 1950-51—including central administrative and loan charges and contributions to the Superannuation Fund—and the contributions recovered from recipients of the services were:—
| Service | Cost | Amount recovered in charges |
|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |
| London ambulance service | 536,988 | — |
| Domiciliary midwifery service | 177,959 | — |
| Maternity and child welfare | 829,570 | 40,959 |
| Mental health | 133,800 | — |
| Day nurseries | 928,946 | 97,479 |
| Medical inspection and treatment of school children | 715,592 | 15,593 |
| Clinics and divisional office maintenance | 15,197 | — |
| Prevention of illness— | ||
| Home nursing | 230,226* | — |
| Domestic help | 401,811 | 42,149 |
| Other preventive services | 440.943 | 19,914 |
| General health service (including £143,985 contribution to metropolitan borough councils for salaries of sanitary officers) | 226,935 | — |
| 4.637,967 | 216,094 |
* Excluding central administration.
VISITORS TO THE DEPARTMENT
During the year 202 individual visitors from 50 countries came over to study the
Council's various health services compared with 195 from 46 countries in 1950 and
147 from 40 countries in 1949. The numbers of visitors from each country are set out
below, the figures in brackets being those for 1950:—
Afghanistan 2 (-); Australia 17 (19); Austria 2 (3); Brazil 1 (1); Burma 4 (2);
Canada 2 (5); Ceylon 5 (5); Cyprus 1 (-); Denmark 3 (2); Egypt 3 (4); Finland
3 (2); Fiji 1 (1); France 7 (7); Germany 8 (7); Greece 3 (-); Hawaii 1 (-); Holland
4 (3); Hong Kong 2 (-); Hungary 3 (-); Iceland 1 (-); India 33 (22); Indonesia
4 (-); Italy 2 (5); Jamaica 1 (-); Japan 5 (1); Malaya 7 (-); Mauritius 3 (1);
New Zealand 4 (7); Nigeria 1(1); Northern Rhodesia 1 (-); Norway 7 (4); Nyasaland
Protectorate 1 (-); Pakistan 4 (4); Palestine (Israel) 3 (6); Persia 3 (1);
Philippines 2 (1); Rumania 1 (-); Saudi Arabia 1 (-); South Africa 5 (-);
Southern Rhodesia 1 (-); Sweden 6 (11); Switzerland 2 (4); Thailand 4 (4);
Trinidad 1 (-); Turkey 1 (2); United States of America 18 (32); Uruguay 2 (5);
U.S.S.R. 3 (-); Yugoslavia 3 (-).