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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
Crayford 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Crayford]
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Chest Clinics.
At West Hill Hospital, Dartford, and 65, Bexley Road,
Erith.
Housing Applicants.
Special consideration is given to cases put forward by
the Medical Officer of Health involving tuberculosis or other
physical disability in the applicants' families and such cases
are considered outside the normal points scheme.
Cases investigated during the year—31.
Applicants recommended for rehousing—6.
No. of families granted houses on account of Tuberculosis—9.
TUBERCULOSIS AFTER CARE.
The Tuberculosis Care Committee, in association with
the Kent Council of Social Service, has continued to function
satisfactorily during the year. 39 families have been assistedPatients,
and their dependents have been provided with clothing,
relatives' fares have been paid to enable them to visit
patients in sanatoria A holiday was arranged for the wife
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