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(a) The London Chest Hospital Clinic
(b) The Metropolitan Hospital Chest Clinic, and
(c) The Shoreditch Chest Clinic (St. Leonard's Hospital).
There is a Tuberculosis After-Care Committee for each area, and the
Medical Officer of Health is a member of the Committees representing the London
Chest Hospital and Metropolitan Hospital Chest Clinic areas. The Borough
Council is also represented by three members on each of these Committees.
There is no direct Hackney representation on the Shoreditch Chest Clinic AfterCare
Committee, but a member of the Metropolitan Hospital Chest Clinic AfterCare
Committee has been seconded to it.
The funds at the disposal of these Committees are used for providing
various amenities for tuberculous persons, and for helping to tide them over
financial difficulties; relatives are, when necessary, assisted with fares to
enable them to visit patients undergoing sanatorium treatment.
SECTION 29 (Domestic help). This service is complementary to the various
medical services, and the cases dealt with during the year were as follows: -
Maternity 39
Tuberculosis 96
Chronic sick and aged persons 2,454
General 396
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:-
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.
Reference 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 this Report.
(a) ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPICE, Mare Street. This Home, run by a Catholic
Community of Nuns, and recently enlarged, provides accommodation for chronic
and incurable cases. It admits cases without consideration of colour, class
or creed who come from all parts, but principally from London. St. Joseph's
is now able to accommodate 156 patients, and during the year, 416 were
admitted - 214 males and 202 females. There were 346 deaths.
(b) WOMEN'S VOLUNTARY SERVICES. The services provided by this Organisation
include a trolley library service at the Hackney Hospital; a tea trolley
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.
VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS