THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL AND MEDICAL FEES FOR SCHOOL ACCIDENTS.

A failure "without parallel": the school medical service and the London County Council 1907-12.

IN HIS Annual Report for 1909 the Chief Medical Officer to the Board of Education, George Newman, was moved to describe the performance by the London County Council (LCC) of its statutory duty under the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act of 1907 to provide for the medical inspection of children attending schools in its area as constituting a failure "without parallel".' Although the disp...

"For a healthy London": the Socialist Medical Association and the London County Council in the 1930s.

London's hospitals are never far from the news, recently for often depressing reasons. The inter-war period, however, saw expansion and development in the capital's municipal hospital service. Between 1921 and 1937 expenditure on centralized health services such as hospitals rose by a factor of nearly twenty, so that by the latter date London accounted, Lee suggests, "for almost a quarter of na...

Artificial Pneumothorax: Experience of the London County Council

Mental Observation Wards in London *The London County Council has no responsibility for the contents of this article.

By a custom established at some unknown date by the now defunct Boards of Guardians, Observation Wards occupy a more important place in the system for dealing with mental patients in London than they do in many parts of England. As most readers are aware, there are two main channels for entering mental hospitals as a certified mental patient. First, the Relieving Officer can arrange for a visit...

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