Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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DISINFECTION
Number of houses dealt with | 982 | Number of articles destroyed | 83 |
,, ,, rooms dealt with | 938 | ,, persons (excluding school children) cleansed | 156 |
„ ,, articles disinfected | 40,873* |
VACCINATION
Number of names received in birth lists | 916 | Certificates of insusceptibility received | - |
Certificates of successful vaccination received | 144 | Statutory declarations of objections received | 397 |
„ „ postponement received | 10 | ||
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY | TUBERCULOSIS CARE WORK | ||
No. of cases on Borough register on 1-1-40 | 1.073 | New cases and re-registrations | 144 |
„ „ „ added in 1940 | 144 | Cases receiving extra nourishment | 131 |
„ „ „ deleted in 1940 | 195 | „ given monetary help | 88 |
„ „ „ on Borough register on 31-12-40 | 1,022 | given other help ... | 74 |
„ „ new cases (excluding contacts) | 154 | „ referred elsewhere for help | 91 |
„ „ contacts | 115 | ||
Total attendances | 2,650 | ||
Patients admitted to institutions | 146 | ||
Specimens of sputum examined | 487 | ||
X-ray examinations | 363 | ||
Domiciliary visits by medical officer | 94 | ||
„ „ „ T.B. visitors | 2,995 |
MEDICAL AND DENTAL TREATMENT
(1) | (2) | New Cases | (7) | (8) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Service | No. of sessions held | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | Revisits | Total attendances |
0-5 | 5-15 | 15 + | Total | ||||
General medical clinic | 83 | — | — | 235 | 235 | 665 | 900 |
Gynaecological clinic | 83 | — | — | 233 | 233 | 507 | 740 |
Foot clinic | 379 | 3 | 24 | 451 | 478 | 2,322 | 2,800 |
Diphtheria immunization clinic | 50 | 157 | 79 | — | 236 | 612 | 848 |
Dental hospital | 464 | 117 | 399 | 981 | 1,497 | 3,574 | 5,071 |
FOOD, SHOPS, FACTORIES, ETC.
Samples of food taken for investigation | 742 | Inspections of mechanical factories | 410 |
Imitial and routine inspections of shops under Shops Acts | 281 | „ non-mechanical factories | 39 |
„ workplaces | 74 | ||
Re-inspections of shops under Shops Acts | 28 | „ outworkers' premises | 515 |
Inspections under Pharmacy and Poisons Act | 102 | Other Factories Act inspections | — |
„ of food premises and milk shops | 1,428 | Factories Act—intimation notices served | 4 |
SANITARY INSPECTION AND HOUSING
Number of complaints received | 1,305 | Number of house-to-house inspections made | 161 |
„ intimation notices served | 2,603 | „ re-inspections | 12,894 |
„ nuisance notices served | 664 | „ notices served under section 9 | — |
„ „ premises under sanitary notice | 8,884 | Total visits of all inspections | 21,924 |
Letters written to owners and others | 1,115 | Samples taken under the Rag Flock Act | 14 |