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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Havering 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Havering]
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| AGE GROUPS | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mainly Industrially Handicapped:- | 16-20 | 21-49 | 50-64 | 65 + | Total |
| Employed: | |||||
| Male | — | 9 | 2 | — | 11 |
| Female | 1 | 3 | 3 | — | 7 |
| Available for and capable of training for work: | |||||
| Male | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Female | — | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| Not available for work: | |||||
| Male | — | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| Female | — | 1 | — | 4 | 5 |
| Requiring observation only: | |||||
| Male | — | — | — | 5 | 5 |
| Female | — | 3 | 1 | 14 | 18 |
| Children, 16 and over, still at school: Male | 1 | — | — | — | 1 |
| 2 | 18 | 9 | 27 | 56 | |
| AGE GROUPS | |||||
| Children under 16: | 0-5 | 5-16 | Total | ||
| Attending Special Schools: | |||||
| Male | — | 8 | 8 | ||
| Female | — | 6 | 6 | ||
| Attending other Schools: | |||||
| M ale | — | — | — | ||
| Female | — | 2 | 2 | ||
| Not at School: | — | — | — | ||
| — | 16 | 16 | |||
Work with Homeless Families
The Health and Welfare Department has a duty under Section
21 of the 1948 National Assistance Act to provide temporary
accommodation for families who find themselves homeless in
circumstances they could not reasonably have foreseen, or in
such other situations as the authority may in any particular case
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