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SMOKERS ADVISORY CLINIC
The Smokers Advisory Clinic held weekly at Shoreditch Health Centre
continued throughout the year but the numbers attending were somewhat
disappointing. In all 67 attended 97 times and 6 stated that they had stopped
smoking following the advice given at the clinic.
RE-HOUSING ON MEDICAL GROUNDS
Regular monthly meetings with representatives from the Housing Department
continued to take place. During the year under review 158 cases were discussed
and 141 placed in various degrees of priority. In each case the precise
medical condition and resultant disability were determined necessitating
communication with the family doctor or with the hospital attended.
NURSING HOMES
There are four nursing homes registered in the borough. Two of them are
mother and baby homes run by the Salvation Army and the Sisters of St. Mary
the Virgin, Wantage, respectively; one which is in essence a hospital for
terminal cases; and only one nursing home in the accepted sense. This latter
home, St. Margaret's Nursing Home, 262 Victoria Park Road, E.9, accommodates
9 chronic medical patients and two maternity patients who are under the care
of the general practitioner obstretician during their stay. The number of
confinements which took place in this home during the year was 28.
There are no maternity beds at the two mother and baby homes.
All the homes are periodically inspected by staff of the Health
Department.
HEALTH CENTRES
Although no progress in the form of actual bricklaying was made in
respect of health centres, some useful progress was made towards the agreement
of plans and costs with the Department of Health and Social Security in
respect of five of the six proposed new health centres for the borough.
At the end of the year the situation was as follows:-
Somerford Grove, N.16 - plans and cost limits agreed and work on
site due to commence in February, 1970.
Barton House, N.16 - plans have been agreed with the Department
of Health and Social Security. Architect
is preparing working drawings.
Hedgers Grove, E.9 - as the site originally earmarked in
Trowbridge Road will not be available for
some years, the Health Committee approved
a site in Hedgers Grove, E.9, for the
replacement of the Wick Child Health
Centre and two doctors' surgeries.
Clapton Park, E. 5 - plans awaiting approval by the Department
of Health and Social Security.
Kingsmead Estate, E.9 - proposals for a health centre in this area
are at a preliminary stage.