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Marylebone 1950

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]

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Body.
West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases.
Samaritan Hospital—House Committee.
National Smoke Abatement Society.
London and Home Counties Smoke Abatement
Advisory Council.
Paddington & St. Marylebone District Nursing
Association (Executive Committee).
St. Marylebone Youth Centre Committee
(Management Committee).
St. Marylebone Clean Food Association.
Representatives.
Councillor Mrs. M. E. Henderson-Begg.
Councillor the Hon. Mildred Lowther, O.B.E.
The Chairman of the Public Health
Committee.
The Medical Officer of Health.
The Chairman of the Public Health
Committee.
The Medical Officer of Health.
Councillor the Hon. Mildred Lowther, O.B.E.
Alderman Mrs. V. A. L. Freeman, J.P.
Councillor F. Frame.
Councillor H. C. Garrard.
Councillor Miss L. West Russell.

Table: Financial Contributions to Voluntary Organisations.—Payments to the funds of voluntary bodies were, on the recommendation of the Public Health Committee, made by the Council during 1950 as indicated below:—

Financial Contributions to Voluntary Organisations.—Payments to the funds of voluntary bodies were, on the recommendation of the Public Health Committee, made by the Council during 1950 as indicated below:—

Organisation.Amount.Statutory Authority.
£s.d.
Central Council for Health Education.10100Public Health (London) Act, 1936, section 298.
Family Welfare Association (Area 2).10000Local Government Act, 1948, section 136.
National Smoke Abatement Society.550Public Health (London) Act, 1936, section 298.
London and Home Counties Smoke Abatement Advisory Council.220Local Government Act, 1948, section 136. Local Government Act, 1948, section 136.
St. Marylebone Youth Centre, Padding-ton Street.1,41400Physical Training and Recreation Act, 1937, section 4 (4).
St. Marylebone Old People's Welfare Association:—
"Meals on Wheels" Service.258182National Assistance Act, 1948, section 31.
"Hard of Hearing" Club.6100National Assistance Act, 1948, section 31.
Conferences.—The Council were officially represented at the under-mentioned conferences dealing with matters within the purview of the Public Health Department:—
Conference.Delegates.
Royal Sanitary Institute. Eastbourne, 24th to 28th April.The Chairman of the Public Health Committee and the Medical Officer of Health.
Central Council for Health Education—"Food and Drink Infections." London, 31st August.Mr. H. E. Scoble, Food Inspector and Sampling Officer.
Sanitary Inspectors' Association. Bridlington, 11th to 15th September.Mr. E. E. Willis, Senior Sanitary Inspector.
National Old People's Welfare Committee-"Care of Old People." Brighton, 18th to 20th October.Councillor The Hon. Mildred Lowther, O.B.E., and Miss M. M. Sharp, Sanitary Inspector.

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Care of Old People.—Three hundred and fifty-six old people (including 33 married couples) were
visited by one of the women sanitary inspectors. The great majority were living alone and some
required constant observation, particularly where they were awaiting admission to hospital. The
domestic help service continued to render valuable assistance to a large number of the aged
inhabitants of the Borough.
Special Laundry Service.—From time to time difficulty and distress are caused by the inability of
old people who are acutely ill and suffering from incontinence to get their bed linen and night-wear
washed. These cases generally arise because of the lack of sufficient hospital accommodation, the
fact that many old people who are living alone have no reserve of bed linen, and to the unwillingness
of laundries to deal with badly soiled sheets and clothing. Wherever it is possible, efforts are made
to tide over the emergency by borrowing sheets from the District Nursing Association, but the laundry
problem still remains. The Council therefore decided to take advantage of section 122 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1936, which states, inter alia, that on a report from the Medical Officer of Health
that any article in a house is in such a filthy, dangerous or unwholesome condition that health is
affected or endangered thereby, the Sanitary Authority may cause the article to be cleansed and
removed for that purpose. Special arrangements were accordingly made at the Council's Cleansing