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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 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Maintenance
The net cost of the services after allowing for Government grant, expressed in terms of rate in the £ was 10.6d., divided as follows:
| d. | |
|---|---|
| Ambulance service | 1.32 |
| Day nurseries | 2.25 |
| Domestic help service | 1.3 |
| Domiciliary midwifery service | .35 |
| General health services | .63 |
| Health visiting | .6 |
| Home nursing | .66 |
| Maternity and child welfare | 1.1 |
| Mental Health | .3 |
| Prevention of illness (care and after care, health education, tuberculosis, etc.) | .73 |
| Vaccination and Immunisation | .1 |
| School health | 1.26 |
| 10.6 |
The gross cost of the various services in 1952-53—including central administrative charges and contributions to the Superannuation Fund but excluding debt charges—and the contributions recovered from recipients of the services were:
| Service | Cost | Amount recovered in charges |
|---|---|---|
| Ambulance service | 723,392 | — |
| Day nurseries | 1,307,801 | 135,612 |
| Domiciliary midwifery service | 167,605 | — |
| General health services (including £163,934 contribution to metropolitan borough councils for salaries of sanitary officers) | 177,403 | |
| Health centres | 6,388 | — |
| Health visiting | 283,015 | — |
| Maternity and child welfare | 595,921 | 50,561 |
| Mental health | 154,941 | 349 |
| Prevention of illness— | ||
| Home nursing | 308,853 | — |
| Domestic help | 651,403 | 38,839 |
| Other preventive services | 415,451 | 20,791 |
| School health | 745,771 | 20,561 |
| £5,537,944 | £266,713 |
VISITORS TO THE DEPARTMENT
individual visitors to the department (excluding those who went only to
Woodberry Down Health Centre) during 1953, totalled 139 from 49 countries, excluding
50 visitors from Great Britain. The foreign countries from which visitors were received
with the number for each were : The Argentine 1, Australia 17, Austria 4, Bombay 1,
Brazil 1, British Guiana 1, Burma 2, Canada 3, Ceylon 4, China 3, Czechoslovakia 1,
Denmark 1, Egypt 1, Fiji 1, Finland 1, France 4, Germany 2, Gold Coast 1, Greece 2,
India 18, Indonesia 6, Iraq 1, Israel 4, Italy 1, Japan 3, Jordan 1, Kenya 1, Korea 1,
Malaya 1, Mauritius 1, Netherlands 6, New Zealand 3, Nigeria 1, Norway 6, Pakistan 3,
Persia 3, Philippines 1, Portugal 2, Rhodesia 2, South Africa 1, Sudan 2, Sweden 3,
Trieste 1, Trinidad 2, Turkey 3, U.S.A. 6, U.S.S.R. 2, Yugoslavia 2, Zanzibar 1.
These visitors were given programmes suited to their individual needs, consisting of
visits in the field and in many cases talks by senior medical, nursing or administrative