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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
Hendon 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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| Total Cost. | Grant in Aid. | Nett Cost to Rates. | Rate in £. pence. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||
| Nuisance abatement, sanitation and general cost of Health Department | 1937 | 7095 | 8 | 10 | - | - | - | 7095 | 8 | 10 | 1.0 |
| 1938 | 7363 | 4 | 7 | — | — | — | 7363 | 4 | 7 | 1.0 | |
| Isolation Hospital | 1937 | 17911 | 5 | 5 | — | — | 17911 | 5 | 5 | 2.5 | |
| 1938 | 18422 | 0 | 3½ | — | — | — | 18422 | 0 | 3½ | 2.4 | |
| Maternity and Child Welfare Services (including Provision of Midwives) | 1937 | 8250 | 17 | 9 | 2300 | 0 | 0 | 5950 | 17 | 9 | .8 |
| 1938 | 10023 | 15 | 7 | 2760 | 0 | 0 | 7263 | 15 | 7 | 1.0 | |
| School Medical Services | 1937 | 10696 | 8 | 5 | 5348 | 4 | 2 | 5348 | 4 | 3 | .7 |
| 1938 | 11847 | 15 | 9 | 5923 | 17 | 10 | 5923 | 17 | 11 | .8 | |
AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS.
It would not be fitting in a resume, such as this, of the
work carried out by the Public Health Department, to omit
mentioning this service which has become a duty of local
authorities, and especially that portion of it dealing with the
collection and treatment of casualties. The whole conception
of the service which is being built up is essentially curative
and not preventive, thus to a large extent differing from the
other activities of the Department, which, while concerned
with early treatment, have as their ultimate aim the prevention
of disease.
The organization of Casualty Medical Services was first
made a duty of local authorities in 1935 and from the commencement,
the formation of a comprehensive scheme was
placed upon the County Council. It was and remains a
necessity for Hendon to dovetail local arrangements into the
general County Scheme.
Owing to conflicting central instructions, and possibly to
a general apathy in the belief, perhaps of lack of necessity,
progress at first was very slow.