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Willesden 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Staffing.
The staffing at the Princess Road Voluntary Centre is as follows:—
1 Medical Officer, part time.
1 Superintendent.
1 Assistant.
1 Masseuse, part time.
Voluntary workers.
Domestic staff.
Maintenance.
The expenditure for the year ended 31st March, 1939, was as follows:—
| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| By Medical Officer | 263 | 11 | 0 |
| Salaries | 670 | 4 | 7 |
| Furniture and Equipment | 15 | 4 | 10 |
| Repairs | 3 | 15 | 6 |
| Rent, Rates and Taxes | 72 | 14 | 7 |
| Heating, Lighting and Cleaning, including Laundry | 53 | 13 | 0 |
| Printing and Postage | 14 | 8 | 2 |
| Telephones | 12 | 14 | 8 |
| Milk | 159 | 7 | 7 |
| Drugs | 17 | 17 | 11 |
| Sundries | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| Bank Interest | 5 | 2 | 6 |
| Interest on Loan | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| £1,297 | 14 | 10 |
The income for the year ended 31st March, 1939, was as follows:—
| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| To Grants from Willesden Council for year ended 31st March, 1938 | 597 | 5 | 6 |
| Payments by Mothers | 17 | 16 | 6 |
| Payments by Mothers for Light Treatment | 10 | 1 | 6 |
| Subscriptions and Donations | 418 | 4 | 6 |
| Sales and Entertainments | 145 | 3 | 4 |
| Sale of Milk | 170 | 0 | 11 |
| Sale of Drugs | 20 | 6 | 2 |
| Sale of Flannel | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| £1,380 | 2 | 5 |
There is an overdraft in connection with the Welfare Centre of £160 7s. 1d.
In connection with Princess Road Welfare Centre, it should be borne in mind that patients who
attend there still have to attend Municipal Health Centre (1) for dental treatment, for examination
by Obstetrician, for booking for confinement, for ear, nose and throat conditions, eye conditions,
skin diseases, cleansing and Municipal Health Centre (3) for orthopaedics, and that dried milk and
nutritive foods are supplied free to the Voluntary Centre for necessitous cases by the Council.
Pending the establishment of the Council's proposed Health Centre (4), if the Council desire
to take over the Voluntary Centre the most satisfactory arrangement for the public and from the
administrative and economical points of view would be to transfer the Princess Road Welfare Centre
work to Health Centre (1), transferring also the Princess Road two Nurses and appointing a wholetime
Medical Officer.
GEORGE F. BUCHAN,
Medical Officer of Health.