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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 unfit to take their place in open industry without the likelihood of relapse.
This scheme was approved by the Ministry of Labour, under the Disabled
Persons (Employment) Act, 1958, for training of 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 completing their training, they are
appointed to the establishment. Nine places out of a total of 38 were occupied by
Enfield residents at the end of 1969, including one who suffers from bronchiectasis
and bronchitis. Two Enfield patients died during the year, one left the workshop on
retirement, one terminated employment due to ill-health, and one resigned.
The Council continued to sponsor the maintenance of one man at the Papworth
Village Settlement, near Cambridge, at the end of 1969, the other Enfield patient
there having died 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
until 11th December, when, due to staff shortages, the hostel was closed. Suitable
alternative arrangements were made for the two Enfield residents previously
sponsored at the hostel.
Non-Tuberculous Chest Disease
The Edmonton Chest Clinic continued its work in the larger field of nontuberculous
chest disease. To mention three of the most common conditions, new
cases of bronchitis numbered 329, of asthma 170, and of bronchial carcinoma 84.
Mass Radiography
Mass Radiography Unit 6A of the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital
Board visited the borough when sessions were held on the premises of six large
industrial concerns, two colleges and one municipal establishment.
A total of 3,172 persons were X-rayed, of whom 32 required further investigation.
My report for the year 1968 mentioned that results were still awaited of
investigation of a number of persons referred from 10,832 X-rayed in the Enfield
area towards the end of that year. I am indebted to the Organising Secretary of Mass
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