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Subjects publicised included home safety, the relationship between
smoking and health, diphtheria immunisation, vaccination against poliomyelitis,
smallpox, food hygiene, influenza, and the care of the.elderly.
Holiday Centre
During the year, 1,240 Stepney residents spent a holiday at the
Council's Holiday Centre, The Manor House, Sandgate, near Folkestone,
Kant. This number included 828 aged persons and 126 children. The
total number of weekly bookings was 1,444, the highest since the Manor
House was opened in 1958.
The Holiday Centre is open all the year round and is available to
all residents of the Borough, young and old, the latter being alioted
half the total accommodation each weak. Coach transport is provided
to and from the Manor House and the Public Health Department. The
management and control of the Holiday Centre is vested in the Council's
Physical Training and Recreation Committee and the day-to-day administration
is the responsibility of the Medical Officer of Health. The
intensive.publicity measures taken in the autumn, as well as personal
contact by. the Department's hygiene officers, resulted in a considerable
increase in Winter bookings.
Hospital Facilities
The undermentioned hospitals are situated in the Borough:
No.of Beds
-The London Hospital, Whitechapel Road 685
Mile End Hospital, Bancroft Road 476
London Jewish Hospital, Stepney Green 128
East End Maternity Hospital, Commercial Road 58
Information Centre
The Council operates an Information Service for the public at the
Municipal Offices', 227-233, Commercial Road, S.l (telephone No. STS.1818)
Two Citizens' Advice Bureaux which obtain financial support from the
Council opened last year at Toynbee Hall, Commercial Street and at Dame
Colet House, Ben Jonson Road.
Laboratory Facilities
Bacteriological investigations for infectious diseases are carried
out on behalf of the Public Health Department by the Regional Hospital
Board's Group Laboratory at Mile End Hospital. (See also page 34 re
food samples).
Investigations were carried out on 166 specimens submitted by the
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