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PERSONAL HEALTH
Included in the three-year capital works programme are a health centre
complex (to include a health clinic, consulting rooms for general medical
practitioners, day nursery and day centre for mentally sub-normal infants),
two other day nurseries (each including day centres for mentally subnormal
infants), a hostel for mentally subnormal adults, and a health clinic to replace
services now provided in rented premises.
During the year the health centre at Forest Road, off Hertford Road, and the
hostel for subnormal children at Baker Street, were completed, equipped,
and brought into use. Reports on these two projects occur elsewhere in
this report.
Nursing Homes
Part VI
Public Health Act 1936
Nursing Homes Act 1963
Mental Health Act 1959
Local health authorities have a duty to register and inspect nursing homes
established in their areas.
General Nursing
Homes
One of the nursing homes registered with the Council is approved for the
care of 100 general patients — male and female — and has been inspected
regularly. Conditions were found to be satisfactory. A second nursing
home, accommodating a total of eight medical and/or chronic sick patients
— male and female — was registered at the end of the year.
Mental Nursing Homes
There is one registered mental nursing home, approved for the care of
twenty-seven mentally disturbed and chronic sick patients. The home, which
is for both male and female patients, has been regularly inspected during
the year.
Maternity Homes
There are no maternity homes registered in the borough.
No private premises in the borough have been approved by the Secretary
of State for Health and Social Security under the Abortion Act 1967 as places
for treatment for the termination of pregnancy.
Certification of blindness and partial sight
Section29,
National Assistance
Act 1948
Arrangements for examination and certification on Form B.D.8 of applicants
for admission to the Register of the Blind or the Register of the Partially
Sighted maintained by local authorities under Section 29 of the National
Assistance Act 1948, are in accordance with the Council's approved scheme.
Ninety-nine reports on Form B.D.8 were received in respect of cases dealt
with under the scheme for the registration of blind and partially sighted
persons.
The Chief Welfare Officer arranges for social welfare officers to visit all
registered persons and follow up on treatment and advice recommended by
the ophthalmic surgeons.
Removal to suitable premises of persons in need of care and attention
Section 47,
National Assistance
Act 1948(asamended)
The compulsory powers to secure necessary care and attention for persons
in the circumstances described in Section 47 of the National Assistance Act
1948 (as amended) were not used during the year. Two cases appeared
to come within the scope of this provision but in neither case was it necessary
to resort to the statutory procedures.
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