Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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FINANCE
Capital
The total capital expenditure on the health services of the Council in the year ended 31st March, 1958, was £18,498, details of which are as follows:
Ambulance service: | |
Stations—erection and adaptation | 2,566 |
Day nurseries—erection and acquisition | 318 |
Maternity and child welfare centres—acquisition, erection, equipment, adaptation | 11,380 |
Occupation centres—adaptation and erection | 1,791 |
Queen's Road health centre—adaptation | 2,443 |
£18,498 |
Maintenance
The gross cost of the various services in1957-58—including central administrative and debt charges—and the contributions recovered from recipients of the services were:
Service | Cost | Amount recovered in charges |
---|---|---|
Ambulance service | 1,071,946 | — |
Day nurseries | 1,023,893 | 184,203 |
Domiciliary midwifery service | 221,467 | — |
General health services (including £212,972 contribution to Metropolitan Borough Councils for salaries of sanitary officers) | 261,723 | — |
Health centres | 38,415 | — |
Health visiting | 277,572 | — |
Maternity and child welfare | 842,690 | 58,583 |
Mental health | 268,957 | 1,012 |
Prevention of illness— | ||
Home nursing | 469,510 | — |
Domestic help | 1,022,562 | 54,180 |
Other preventive services | 562,133 | 31,858 |
School health | 950,548 | 5,796 |
£7,011,416 | £335,632 |
The net cost of the services after allowing for Government grant, expressed in
terms of rate in the £ was 8.65d.
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