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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 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Schemes
awaiting
approval at
end of year
Continued from previous page...
| Division | Premises | Service | Work involved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwall Avenue, Bethnal Green | Occupation centre.. | Adaptation of premises | |
| - | Shoreditch ambulance station | Accident ambulance station | Improvements |
| - | North-Western ambulance station | General ambulance station | Reinstatement of war damage |
| - | Margaret day nursery, St. Pancras | District nursing | Adaptation of vacant rooms for residential accommodation for nurses |
| 2 | Daleham Gardens, Hampstead | Maternity and child welfare and school treatment centre | New building |
| 2 | 283a Harrow Road, Paddington | Maternity and child welfare centre | Extension of premises to provide additional maternity and child welfare facilities, school treatment centre, and office accommodation |
| 5 | Galbraith Street, Poplar | Maternity and child welfare and school treatment centre | Adaptation of existing building |
| 2 | Hampstead health institute, | Maternity and child | Adaptation of existing premi |
| Dynham Road, Hampstead | welfare centre | ses |
Scheme plans
in advanced
stage at end
of year
Programme
for 1956-57
The programme submitted to the Minister of Health for the year 1956-57 included the following projects:
| Division | Premises | Work involved |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Basire Street (Coleman Fields), Islington | Erection of day nursery |
| 9 | Roehampton Lane, Wandsworth | Erection of maternity and child welfare and school treatment centre to serve new housing estates |
| 9 | 'Southlands', Shuttleworth Road, Battersea | Erection of maternity and child welfare and school treatment centre on site of premises at present accommodating maternity and child welfare centre and offices |
| - | 67 Perry Rise, Lewisham | Erection of occupation centre to replace unsatisfactory temporary accommodation and provide additional places |
| - | South-Eastern ambulance station | Extension of existing premises to provide additional accommodation for vehicles and other improvements |
| - | Foxley Road, Lambeth | Conversion of former fire station to provide new accident ambulance station |
Arrangements were also made for the undermentioned schemes, which no longer require individual approval by the Minister, to be dealt with in the year 1956-57 :
| Premises | Work involved |
|---|---|
| Former Balham day nursery, Old Devonshire Road, Wandsworth | Conversion to form new occupation centre to replace unsatisfactory temporary accommodation and provide additional places |
| Knight's Hill day nursery, Lambeth | Conversion after closure to form a hostel for tuberculous men |
| Eastern ambulance station, Hackney | Provision of additional covered space for vehicles |
Projects for
I957-J8
The following projects requiring the approval of the Minister were proposed for inclusion in the building programme for the year 1957-58 :
| Division | Premises | Work involved |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Old Church Road, Stepney | Erection of day nursery |
| 6 | Abbey Wood, Woolwich | Erection of maternity and child welfare and school treatment centre to serve new housing estates |
| 6 | William Barefoot Drive, Woolwich | do. |
| - | Highlever Road, Kensington | Erection of occupation centre to replace unsatisfactory temporary accommodation and provide additional places |
| - | Iceni Sports Ground, Ickburgh Road, Hackney | do. |