Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camden]
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LAUNDRY SERVICE FOR INCONTINENT PERSONS
5.3 Through this service, articles are collected twice weekly, washed and delivered
free of charge. The service — possibly not sufficiently widely known — is of great benefit
in assisting the nursing of incontinent elderly persons in their own homes. The northern
part of the Borough has been served by the Public Health Station in Lithos Road, N.W.3
and the southern part by the Public Health Annexe in Camley Street, N.W.I.
5.3.1 The following tables show the total number of persons helped during 1967 and 1968:-
Month | No. of persons | No. of services | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
1967 | 1968 | 1967 | 1968 | |
January | 77 | 84 | 347 | 412 |
February | 83 | 83 | 286 | 372 |
March | 75 | 87 | 258 | 435 |
April | 74 | 72 | 307 | 347 |
May | 76 | 75 | 336 | 342 |
June | 64 | 77 | 293 | 344 |
July | 69 | 85 | 249 | 372 |
August | 67 | 78 | 316 | 392 |
September | 74 | 69 | 264 | 362 |
October | 94 | 76 | 383 | 348 |
November | 80 | 69 | 363 | 346 |
December | 83 | 73 | 316 | 337 |
MORTUARY AND CORONER'S COURT 5.4 The following table shows the work undertaken during the period under review:-
Circumstances | Post-mortem examinations | Received for viewing or convenience only | Total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1967 | 1968 | 1967 | 1968 | 1967 | 1968 | |
Resident and died in Camden | 361 | 393 | 14 | 8 | 375 | 401 |
Died in Camden, resident elsewhere | 136 | 166 | _ | 1 | 136 | 167 |
Resident in Camden, died elsewhere | 47 | 39 | - | _ | 47 | 39 |
Resident and died elsewhere | 509 | 471 | 3 | - | 512 | 471 |
Total | 1,053 | 1,069 | 17 | 9 | 1,070 | 1,078 |
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT 1948, SECTION 47 - REMOVAL OF PERSONS IN NEED
OF CARE AND ATTENTION
5.5.1 A local authority may apply to a Court of Summary Jurisdiction for an order to
secure the removal of specified persons from their homes where it is certified by the
Medical Officer of Health to be necessary. For this purpose, persons concerned must be
suffering from grave chronic disease or (being aged, infirm or physically incapacitated)
living in insanitary conditions; and unable to devote proper care and attention to themselves
and not receiving it from other persons.
5.5.2 During 1967 it was necessary to take formal action to secure the removal of
two elderly women to hospital. One, doubly incontinent, was living in insanitary conditions
and suffering from malnutrition. The other also living in insanitary conditions,
was subject to falls from which she was unable to rise and was living isolated in the
basement of business premises with no immediate neighbours.
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