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SECTION 29 (Domestic Help). The cases dealt with during the year came
in the following categories:-
Maternity 59
Hiberculosis 57
Chronic sick and aged persons 2,718
General 214
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, and special investigation 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.
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.
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. Pounded 1905, under the care of the Irish Sisters
of Charity, this Hospice provides nursing care for persons in the last stages
of illness, irrespective of creed or race. Of the 110 beds, 100 are allocated
to the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board and two to the London
County Council. During the year 147 male and 294 female patients were
admitted. Discharges and transfers were 26 and deaths totalled 408.