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One effect of the increasing immigrant population on the work of the Health
Department, in addition to initial visits to newly arrived families described above,
is in respect of visits by public health inspectors to homes in multiple occupation.
The Council received grant aid in respect of the proportion of Commonwealth
immigrants in the borough, under Section 11 of the Local Government Act, 1966.
A useful register has been compiled and issued by the Immigrants Advisory
Committee of the London Council of Social Service. The register lists interpreters
and social workers with special knowledge of overseas groups in the Greater London
area who can be called upon when necessary.
Rehabilitation
The Tottenham Rehabilitation and Sheltered Workshop was established in
1948 to make available rehabilitation through training, and subsequent sheltered
employment, to tuberculous patients who were fit for part-time or full-time employment,
though severely disabled by tuberculosis chest disease and who were therefore
deemed to be unfit to take their place in open industry without the likelihood of
relapse.
This scheme has been approved by the Ministry of Labour, under the Disabled
Persons (Employment) Act, 1958, for training selected patients to become journeymen
cabinet makers.
During the training period, patients are paid training allowances by the Department
of Employment and Productivity, and on completion of training they are
appointed to the establishment. Thirteen places out of a total of 38 were occupied
by Enfield residents at the end of 1968. One Enfield resident left the workshop
during the year.
The Council continued to sponsor the maintenance of two men at the Papworth
Village Settlement, near Cambridge, during the year.
Hostels
The Council is empowered to provide hostel accommodation for homeless
tuberculous persons. Two persons were resident at a hostel for homeless tuberculous
men provided by the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames at Twickenham
at the end of the year.
Non-Tuberculous Chest Disease
Chest clinic work in this field continued at a high level and covered a wide
variety of non-tuberculous conditions. To mention three of the most common:
new cases of bronchitis number 389, of asthma 228 and of carcinoma of the lung 112.
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