[Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Surrey County Council.

  • Surrey (England). County Council.
Date:
1954
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Credit: [Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Surrey County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    18 WORK OF THE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Details of the work of the department are given in the subsequent sections of the Report. There are, however, four matters which I would like also to refer to here, either because they were of special importance or because they were new developments. Capital Building Programme. The County Council are required to submit for the Minister’s approval each year a provisional programme of Capital Building works which they plan to undertake in the ensuing financial year. The following is a list of such projects submitted in previous years which have been completed or are in the course of erection since my last Report :— Project. Purpose. Present Position. “ Everleigh,” Addlestone Botley’s Park, Chertsey Welfare Centre/School Clinic... Completed November, 1954. Main Ambulance Station Completed August, 1954. Grand Drive, Morden Welfare Centre/School Clinic Work in progress. Hill House, St. Helier Main Ambulance Station Work in progress. L.C.C. Estate, Merstham Welfare Centre/School Clinic... Completed November, 1954. Stonecot Hill, Sutton Welfare Centre/School Clinic... Work in progress. Woking Ambulance Sub-Station Suitable existing premises purchased. During the year the Council were informed by the Ministry that as they were committed to schemes on which building had already started costing some £70,000 in the current financial year, it would be imlikely that any new clinic schemes would receive approval before the beginning of the financial year 1955-56. Following discussions with officers of the Ministry, the Council were informed that subject to consideration of the need, building details and cost in each case, they could go forward with four clinic schemes at Amity Grove, Wimbledon ; Between Streets, Cobham ; Junction of Green Wrythe Lane and Middleton Road, Carshalton, and Chaldon Road, Caterham-on-the-Hill, in readiness for the building work to commence at the beginning of the financial year 1955-56. When later in the year the Ministry requested the submission of the Council’s Building Pro¬ gramme for 1955-56, they made it clear that any schemes submitted would not be likely to start in the financial year unless they were of special mgency or sufficiently well advanced to be submitted with full details. The Ministry asked at the same time for the Council’s Building Programme for the financial year 1956-57. In view of all the circumstances the Council decided to include in their Programme for 1955-56 the four clinics mentioned above and also, on the grounds of urgency, the clinic project at Pollards Hill, Mitcham, together with two Ambulance Sub-Station proposals which are of sufficient urgency and have reached the stage necessary to satisfy the Ministry’s requirement. The complete Pro¬ gramme, as submitted to the Ministry, is shown below with the present position of each project:— Project. Purpose. Present Position. Amity Grove, West Wimbledon Between Streets, Cobham Junction of Green Wrythe Lane and Middleton Road, Carshalton Welfare Centre/School Clinic... Welfare Centre/School Clinic... Welfare Centre/School Clinic... Proceeding to tender stage. Proceeding to tender stage. Proceeding to tender stage. Pollards Hill, Mitcham Welfare Centre/School Clinic... Sketch plans and estimates being prepared. Chaldon Road, Caterham-on-the-Hill Welfare Centre/Sehool Clinic... Sketch plans and estimates being prepared. Haslemere Ambulance Sub-Station Sketch plans and estimates being prepared. Walton Lodge Estate, Banstead Ambulance Sub-Station Sketch plans and estimates being prepared. In addition, the Comicil submitted the following projects for 1956-57, which were selected from those projects submitted in previous years and still outstanding. Welfare Centres/School Clinics. Manor Drive, Malden. Molesey. Victoria Road, Horley. Walton Lodge Estate, Banstead. This programme did not include the proposal to erect a joint Library/Welfare Centre/School Clinic at Morden Road, Morden, as it was hoped that this work could be carried out by the Education Committee, with a subsequent apportionment of cost.