London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Beckenham 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beckenham]
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Housing Accommodation
For elderly persons on their housing list points scheme the Council
have over the years provided more than 200 flats or flatlets on various
estates through the Borough.
The Abbeyfield Society have set up three homes and a fourth will be
opened early in 1964. The Beckenham Old People'sWelfare Committee
have a project for building a block of flatlets with communal room and
wardens quarters.
Accommodation in private houses in suitable cases may be
arranged through the North-West Kent Council of Social Service.
This scheme provides mainly for those in hospital who have a home of
their own but whom the hospital cannot release because there is no
one to care for them and for similar types of need.
Nursing at Home
No night nursing is provided by the District Nurses but day home
nursing is provided by one male nurse and thirteen female nurses
employed by the County Council for the area of Beckenham, Penge
and Anerley.
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