Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1949.

  • Bermondsey (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1950]
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Credit: Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1949. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948. SECTION 47. Section 47 provides for the removal to suitable premises of persons in need of care and attention. One such case was dealt with during the year, that of a woman aged 78, and I append a brief history of the case. The case first came to notice of the District Sanitary Inspector on the 25th May, 1948. The woman was then living at home with her husband; she was feeble, mentally weak, and in far too poor a condition to look after herself. On the 22nd December, 1948, her husband having been admitted to hospital, her son, who had a fourroom flat in the district and whose family consisted of seven adults, took her to live with him. The extra burden of looking after her caused considerable family tension, and she returned to her own home on the 8th April, 1949, to live alone, her husband having died in hospital. During all this time she had been regularly visited by the District Sanitary Inspector, who had made repeated, but unsuccessful attempts to persuade her voluntarily to enter an Old People's Home. On the 3rd May, 1949, in company with the District Sanitary Inspector, I visited her and found that her condition had deteriorated to such an extent as to warrant application to a magistrate for a Dentention Order. This was made at Tower Bridge Magistrates' Court on the 12th May, 1949, when the Magistrate made an Order for a period of three months. She was removed to Newington Lodge, Southwark, and at the time of going to press is still there and stated to be happy and comfortable.
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