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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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more work done by social workers becomes work for families,
and many of these families have children of school age or younger
who from time to time turn out to have been in contact with the
Children's Department. There have never been any difficulties
in deciding which social workers from which department should
deal with problems that may be arising in cases found to be
joint ones, and this became even easier to achieve during 1967
when the Children's Department 'Families At Risk' register was
made more immediate and active.
Liaison with the Housing Department has also been greatly
helped by their officers being in the building adjoining the
Health and Welfare Department and connected by an internal
corridor. There is a great deal of contact between their staff
and the social workers, and many Havering residents have
benefitted from this. Such easy day-to-day contact is important
but usually difficult to carry out and is not always to be found
within the same local authority.
Statistics for 1967 in respect of the various services available for the Handicapped and for the Elderly, additional to those mentioned earlier in this report are as follows:—
| No. of handicapped persons assisted with alterations to premises or the issue of special equipment | 798 |
| No. of handicapped persons for whom holidays were arranged | 119 |
| No. of elderly people who were provided with a week's holiday at a Holiday Camp or Guest House | 2,349 |
| No. of elderly people for whom a Day's Outing was provided | 2,621 |
| No. of lunches provided for the elderly at 9 Luncheon Centres | 163,626 |
| No. of Mid-day meals delivered by Meals on Wheels Service | 30,066 |