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the Area Health Office is intimately associated through
its Health Visitors, Home Helps and Home Nursing
Service, in continuing their efforts to alleviate
distress and ill-health among the aged. It is quite
obvious that much remains to be done. Housing for
the aged - and Friern Barnet is already making its
contribution - admission of the chronic sick to hospital,
an adequate service of Home Helps, by no means an easy
matter, the provision of Home Nurses, visits from
Health Visitors and Public Health Inspectors - these
are the obvious ways in which we can be of practical
help. I would make it clear, however, that care
of the aged is a problem intimately associated with
public health and preventive medicine, and that we
are always ready and willing to be of assistance at
any time and in any way.
Laboratory Facilities.
As in past years, the Central Public
Health Laboratory Service has been of the greatest
assistance to us, not only the Central Laboratory at
Colindale, but also the Laboratory at Coppetts Wood
Hospital. I gratefully acknowledge the assistance
afforded throughout the year, and the close co-operation
which has continued for so many years between the
Public Health Department and the Laboratory Service.
Summary of the work carried out at the Public Health
Laboratories for the year:
Throat and nose swabs 1
Faeces 136
Sputum 4
Ice cream 33
Milk 59
Coconut 1
Meat 1
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