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by a senior supervisory public health inspector. There were 65 admissions
during 1968 of which one was post-natal.
St. Margaret's Nursing Hone, 262 Victoria Park Road, E.9
This is a privately owned nursing home which accommodates 9 chronic medical
patients and two maternity patients, who are under the care of a general practitioner
obstretician during their stay. The keeper is a State Certified
Midwife. Periodic inspections are made by officers of the Health Department,
and by an officer of the London Fire Brigade, whose recommendations were carried
out. The number of confinements which took place during the year was 28.
St. Joseph's Hospice
This establishment is registered as a nursing home within the meaning of
the Nursing Homes Act 1963 but is in essence a hospital for terminal cases only.
Despite much hard work by the officers of the Health Department and of
the Department of Architecture and Planning, the Council's Health Centre
Programme showed no progress during the year in the way of actual building.
The hope expressed in my previous report that approval to the erection of a
Health Centre in Somerford Grove would be forthcoming by the end of 1968
proved to be false. Agreement with the Department of Health and Social
Security as to cost limit could not be reached and it was therefore decided to
obtain tenders and negotiate as to acceptance of one of these. Invitations to
tender had not been made public by the end of the year.
The "new look" provided for Health Centres by the Department of Health
and Social Security, under which general medical practitioners would be
reimbursed the whole of the rent and rates and a proportion of charges and the
cost of ancillary staff, increased considerably the interest shown in Health
Centres, not previously very noticeable.
There are now between 20 and 30 general practitioners who have expressed
a desire to occupy Health Centre accommodation and there follows a list of
projected centres in various stages of planning:-
Somerford Grove, N. 16 Clapton Park, E. 5
Barton House, Albion Road, N. 16 Trowbridge Road, E.9
Fountayne Road, N.16 Kingsmead Estate, E.9
The one existing Health Centre providing general practitioner accommodations,
viz., the John Scott Health Centre, Woodberry Down Estate, continued to
function and temporary accommodation was made available at the Shoreditch Health
Centre for one general practitioner whose existing premises became unsafe.
Nutrition surveys of pre-school children and pregnant women
This survey, which is being conducted in several parts began in 1967 with
a study of the diets of pregnant women. It was next concerned with the diets
of children in different sized families and in 1967 with the incidence of
dental caries in pre-school children. The dental examinations of the children
concerned were still being undertaken during the year and no report of the
surveys has yet been received.
Measles vaccine trials
The long term follow-up of children vaccinated against measles in the
Medical Research Council's trials of 1965 and 1966 has now been completed
and a report was published in May 1968. Vaccinated children were found to
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