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Other services provided by the County Council. In its capacity as local
health authority, the County Council also provides health visiting (SECTION 24)
and domiciliary midwifery (SECTION 23) services. As local education authority,
the County Council is responsible for the provision of a comprehensive
school health service which includes facilities for the treatment of minor
ailments in school children at the following centres:-
29, Cadogan Terrace. E. 9.
13, Goulton Road, E. 5,
136, Richmond Road. E. 8.
186, Upper Clapton Road, E. 5.
Cleansing Centre, Millfields Road, E.5.
Other treatment facilities for school children include dental, nutrition,
ophthalmic, ear, nose and throat and physiotherapy clinics.
PART IV (General medical and dental services, pharmaceutical services and
supplementary ophthalmic services). The London Executive Council is the
authority responsible for the purpose of exercising functions with respect to
the provision of services under this part of the National Health Service Act.
VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS
References to the activities of the Hackney Association for the Welfare
of Old People, the Hackney District Nursing Association and the Tuberculosis
Care Committees are made elsewhere in the Report.
(a) ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPICE, Mare Street, This Home meets a very real need
in providing accommodation for chronic and incurable cases; it admits cases
from many parts of the country as well as from London, and there is always a
waiting list. A new block completed in October provided 79 beds, and there
are now 145 beds, of which 10 are reserved for the London County Council
(Part III accommodation).
(b) WOMEN'S VOLUNTARY SERVICES The activities of this organisation again
included:- A tea trolley service at the German Hospital; a trolley library
service at the Hackney Hospital; visits to patients in hospital; assistance
to old age pensioners; distribution of welfare foods; escort journeys;
arrangements for seaside holidays for children and old age pensioners; and the
collection and distribution of clothing for needy families. Anglo-Egyptian
Repatriates and Hungarian Refugees were visited and assistance given where
necessary
(c) ST JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE NO 5 (Hackney) Division. The Division
suffered a grievous loss in the death of Vice President Chief Superintendent
Carson, who had always taken such a keen interest in its activities. The
deaths of Corporal Collins and Private Debonnair were also greatly mourned by
the members.