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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
Croydon 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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LOAN OF NURSING EQUIPMENT
The Corporation loans equipment and snakes a small weekly charge with exemption for incomes below a certain figure.
1965
| Health Dept. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central | Purley (B) | Shirley | |||||
| Air beds | 1 | ||||||
| Air bellows | - | 1 | |||||
| Air rings | 106 | 16 | 21 | 17 | 5 | 8 | 9 |
| Bed pans | 137 | 38 | 31 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 24 |
| Bed tables | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | - | 1 | - |
| Bedsteads | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bed Pulley | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bed rests | 112 | 21 | 26 | 28 | - | 15 | 13 |
| Bed blocks | 8 | - | 3 | - | - | 2 | - |
| Bed cradles | 20 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| Carrying chairs | 2 | ||||||
| Commodes | 94 | 39 | 27 | 29 | 4 | 13 | 22 |
| Cotton sheets (draw) | 2 | ||||||
| Crutches | 10 | 8 | 11 | 5 | - | - | 2 |
| Dunlopillo Mattresses | 7 | ||||||
| Enuresis Machines | 60 | ||||||
| Feeding cups | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | 2 |
| Fracture boards | 8 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Foot Suction pump | 4 | - | - | - | |||
| Heat Lamp | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | |
| Hydraulic hoists | 7 | _ | - | _ | |||
| Inhaler | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Mackintosh sheets | 89 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| North pads | 40 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Urinals | 40 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| Walking Aids | 46 | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | - |
| Walking Machines | |||||||
| Walking sticks | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Walking tripods | 4 | 1 | |||||
| Wheel Chairs | 56 | 79 | 19 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 33 |
| Incontinence Pads Issued | 7,668 | * | • | - | - | - | - |