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Centre closed
School health service
Division 8—St. John's Hall, Larcom Street, Southwark.—This minor ailment centre formed
part of the St. George's Dispensary Trust. The accommodation was not satisfactory for
the purpose, and with the consent of the Trustee the centre was closed and the service
transferred to the Walworth Road health centre on 1st September.
Works
completed
Division 1—Chelsea school treatment centre, Bramerton Street.—Works of adaptation and
improvement on acquisition were completed.
Schemes in
progress
Division 2—Westminster school treatment centre, Westminster.—The adaptation of 40
Alderney Street, Westminster was nearing completion at the end of the year. When
completed these premises will replace accommodation rented at 38 Rochester Row and
41 Greencoat Place.
Division 7—East Dulwich school treatment centre.—Adaptation of 475 Lordship Lane as a
school treatment and maternity and child welfare centre was nearing completion at the
end of the year. When this work is completed, the school treatment centre at 29 Amott
Road, Camberwell, will be closed and the premises, which are unsatisfactory for health
service purposes, disposed of.
Division 8—St. George's Dispensary, 86 Blackfriars Road, Southwark.—As mentioned in
the report for 1951, this property was vested in the St. George's Dispensary Trust which
was offered to the Council. The scheme for transfer of the trust and premises to the
Council was still in preparation at the end of the year.
Division 9—Tooting school treatment centre, 1071 Garratt Lane, Wandsworth.—The freehold
of this property was offered for sale, but the premises are unsuitable for acquisition by
the Council owing to age and structural condition and the centre will have to be closed.
The purchase of other premises at 193 Mitcham Road and preliminary expenditure on
their adaptation was approved subject to agreement on covenants in the lease. This was
still under negotiation at the end of the year. When terms are agreed a detailed scheme
of adaptation will be prepared.
Office accommodation
The following changes in office accommodation were made during the year:
Division 1—The home help organiser's office was transferred to 31/33 Bramerton Street
from 21a King's Road, Chelsea.
Division 5—The health visitors and clerical staff at 43 Whitehorse Road, rented from the
Stepney metropolitan borough council, were transferred to the Mary Hughes welfare
centre, Underwood Road.
Division 9—By arrangement with the Battersea metropolitan borough council, additional
rooms were made available at 'Southlands' Shuttleworth Road, to which the divisional
treatment organiser's office was accordingly transferred from Stowey House School,
Clapham.
Woodberry
Down
health
centre
Health centres
The Council's first comprehensive health centre at Woodberry Down, Stoke Newington,
was completed in September, and the ceremonial opening was performed by Mr. Somerville
Hastings, M.S., F.R.C.S., M.P. on 14th October.
The centre will serve about 23,000 people. The site, about one and a half acres in
extent, including one third of an acre for a day nursery, lies in the south-west corner of
the Council's Woodberry Down Housing Estate, which is nearing completion.
The planning, equipping and staffing of the building was carried out after discussion
and consultation between the public health and the architectural departments of the
Council, the London Executive Council, the London Local Medical Committee and the
London Local Dental Committee. The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education
were also consulted, and made additions and alterations to the plans before final approval
was obtained.