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There is an After Care Committee for each area- The Medical Officer of
Health is a member of the Committees representing the London Chest Hospital and
Metropolitan Chest Clinic areas and the Borough Council is represented by three
members on each of these two Committees.
SECTION 29 (Domestic Help) The cases dealt with during the year came
in the following categories:-
Maternity 64
Tuberculosis 78
Chronic sick and aged persons 2,650
General 194
Other services provided by the County Council. In its capacity as Local
Health Authority the County Council also provides health visiting (SECTION 24)
and is responsible for the provision of a comprehensive school health service
which includes facilities for the treatment of minor ailments in schoolchildren
at the following centres in the Borough:-
29, Cadogan Terrace, E.9.
13, Goulton Road, E.5.
136, Richmond Road E.8.
186, Upper Clapton Road, E.5.
Other treatment facilities for schoolchildren include dental, nutrition,
ophthalmic, ear, nose and throat and physiotherapy clinics.
MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1959 The admission of mentally disordered persons to
psychiatric hospitals, the care and after-care of the mentally ill. and the care
of severely sub-normal and sub normal children and adults is carried out by the
Mental Welfare Officers from the Shoreditch Health Centre. There are two
training centres for severely sub normal and sub-normal persons in the Borough:-
(i) The Dalston Training Centre (for elder boys and men)
Congregational Church Hall, Bay Street E.8. and
(ii) The Hackney Junior Training Centre (for boys and girls)
Ickburgh Road E, 5.
Clifton Lodge, 96, Dalston Lane, E.8, is a day rehabilitation centre
and provides places for forty persons who have been discharged from
psychiatric hospitals and are in need of help in re-adjusting themselves
to life in the community.
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
The activities of the Hackney Association for the Welfare of Old People
and the Hackney Association for Workshops for the Elderly are dealt with in the
section of the report relating to the Welfare of Aged Persons whilst the work
of the Hackney District Nursing Association and the three Tuberculosis Care
Committees is set out elsewhere in this section
(a) ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPICE. This Home, run by a Catholic Order of Nuns
(Sisters of Charity) is provided for persons in the last stages of illnessOf
the 115 beds, 90 are available to the North East Metropolitan Hospital
Board. and 7 beds reserved for the London County Council. During the year
147 men and 231 women were admitted there were 381 deaths and 27 transfers
and discharges took place.