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PREVENTION OF ILLNESS, CARE AND AFTER CARE
(Section 2 8)
Recuperative Holidays
The Area Health staff continued to be responsible for dealing with applications
for recuperative holidays and during 1961 180 applications were received conmared with
176 the previous year. Of these, 164 were approved.
Chiropody Service
Following approval of the Ministry of Health to the Local Authority's proposal for
the extension of the Chiropody Service under Section 28 of the National Health Service
Act 1946, the establishment of chiropodists for this Area was increased to two.
Hitherto we had employed chiropodists in the School Health Service for five sessions a
week and in February one of the existing chiropodists increased her sessions by two a
week to enable a clinic to be established at the Welfare Centre, 162 Stroud Green Road
for the treatment mainly of old people.
At the end of the year in spite of all efforts it had been impossible to increase
the number of sessions further, but early in 1962 another chiropodist was appointed
for two sessions a week which enabled a weekly session to be held at the Fortis Green
Welfare Centre and another session at the Hornsey Town Hall Clinic, both devoted
mainly to treatment of old people.