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OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
The Chest Clinic Occupational Therapy Department has been kept
busy in 1969 with an increasing demand for patients to be found occupation
in their own homes.
Rather more of these patients have been elderly or too poorly to be
able to attend Waylands this year and they find useful occupation
satisfying and reassuring. The chronic shortness of breath from which
most of our patients suffer restricts the variety of craft work to some
extent but this year we have made a big effort to introduce new items
to sustain the interest and enthusiasm of the long term patients.
We have been very successful with our sales again and most of the
articles sold quite quickly from the show case at the Chest Clinic and
others went at a small sale held at Purley Hospital just before Christmas.
This year the demand has been for more canework and hand woven
stools.
PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE
Very considerable use has been made of the facilities for bacteriological
and other laboratory examinations of public health nature. I take
this opportunity to thank Dr. W.R.G. Thomas, Consultant Bacteriologist at
Mayday Hospital for his ready assistance and most helpful advice which
have been available at all times.
For detailed figures, see Appendix, page 131.