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home.bound patients which was started last year is continuing and is meeting a
demand. The instruction is given by voluntary workers.
2,311 households were attended by home helps, a modest increase over the
previous year's figures.
Home
help
service
Home
nursing
Home nursing equipment has been lent to twenty.nine patients as compared
with two in 1949 and eight in 1950. At the end of the year fifteen patients were still
using the equipment. 153,838 visits were paid by District Nurses, an increase of
8.7 per cent.
Welfare
of old
people
The problem of dealing with the aged sick has not abated. Co.operation has
been maintained with the official and voluntary bodies concerned. Home helps
have been provided where necessary and 396 visits to old people were made by
health visitors.
Organisation
This report would not be complete without a reference to the new organisation
planned during the year and designed to combine the personal health services of the
Division and the environmental services of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Battersea
and Wandsworth, by the appointment of a Divisional Medical Officer responsible for
all this work assisted by two deputies who would give special attention to the medical
duties of the two Borough Councils. I hope that this promising experiment will
bear fruitful results.
Conclusion
On leaving the division 1 would like to place on record my gratitude to the
divisional staff and also to voluntary associations and societies, the hospitals and
the staff of the two Borough Councils whose help and co.operation were invaluable.
Introduction
DAY.TIME MIGRATION AND POPULATION OF LONDON
The following statistics, which have been provided by and are produced here
with the kind permission of the London Transport Executive, relate to the day.time
migration of workers and students from their place of residence to that of work as
disclosed by the London Travel Survey of 1949. The figures are based on movement
of workers and scholars to destinations outside their borough of residence and in
Boroughs where no interviews occurred in the course of the survey estimates of such
regular journeys were made on the experience of neighbouring boroughs. The
movements considered refer only to those workers and students living in Greater
London and thus exclude journeys made from the residue of the London Transport
Area and beyond. In short the estimates give a general idea of the number of
Londoners regularly present during the day.time in the Central Commercial and
other areas of industry in the County on an average day of the week (Monday to
Friday). They include not only those travelling by public transport but also those
using private means of conveyance and walkers. They exclude, however, both
Londoners and visitors to London moving by public transport or otherwise regularly
or less than once a week on business or pleasure, i.e., for purposes other than normal
travel to and from work or school.
For the purpose of this investigation the County of London has been divided
into the following sectors, consisting of groups of local authority areas as below:—
1. Central Commercial Area Cities of London and Westminster,
born and Finsbury.
2. West County St. Marylebone, Paddington, Kensington,
Chelsea, Fulham and Hammersmith.
3. North County Hampstead, St. Pancras, Islington and
Stoke Newington.
4. East County Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Stepney,
Poplar and Hackney.
5. S.E. County
wich and Woolwich.
6. South County Battersea, Lambeth, Camberwell,
sham and Wandsworth.