Responsibilities of Local Education Authorities

Responsibilities of hospitals and local authorities for elderly patients.

For some time it has been evident that a large number of elderly patients are in the wrong place. Some who need hospital care remain at home or in welfare homes; there are others in acute hospitals who no longer need investigation or treatment of acute illness; still others are in geriatric units only because they have no home or welfare home to which they can be discharged. The position is fur...

The Local Authorities' Part

Local environmental health planning. Guidance for local and national authorities.

The World Health Organization was established in 1948 as a specialized agency of the United Nations serving as the directing and coordinating authority for international health matters and public health. One of WHO’s constitutional functions is to provide objective and reliable information and advice in the field of human health, a responsibility that it fulfils in part through its publications...

Local Authorities and the Mental Health Act

One of the main principles of the Royal Commission of 1957 and of the Mental Health Act which followed it was a reorientation towards community services. This has given local authorities the function of caring for most of the mentally ill who are not being treated within hospitals and will allow them to play as big a part ?n mental health as they have done in physical health. The opportunity ha...

The Public Health: Interviews with Local Authorities

authority in the City of Birmingham to see that these vast numbers of workmen with their dependants?comprised in a population now numbering 920,000?are well housed and care for. Fortified with the knowledge that another visitor to Birmingham in 1752, then a considerable market town, found its inhabitants to be " generally of an obliging and ingenious disposition," we sought an interview with Mr...