London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Sutton 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton]
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Medical Priorities were awarded as follows
1968 1969
Category I (Priority as soon as suitable
accommodation is available) 63 56
Category II (Priority within the points
group) 77 37
Category III (No Priority on medical
grounds) 134 94
The following criteria are applied to those applicants who are classified
as in urgent need and to whom the Director's duty of arranging for rehousing
is applicable
(a) No other accommodation is available to them from any source.
(b) They are homeless through circumstances over which they have no
control or could not reasonably have been expected to foresee.
In a number of cases permanent housing has been made available to enable
separated families to be re-united, some by the discharge of children from
Local Authority care.
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