Sanatoria and local authorities

The Local Authorities' Part

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...

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...

Sanatoria revisited: sunlight and health.

Since the 18th century tuberculosis has been a major cause of death throughout the world. It is a highly infectious disease that spreads by droplet infection and finding effective treatment to combat tuberculosis took a great deal of time. One of the first treatments to have some real success was a stay in a sanatorium. Sanatoria were homes that provided patients with good food and fresh air (a...

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...