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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bermondsey 1933
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1933
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IV. LIGHT TREATMENT.
The following table shows the work done in the Solarium during 1933:—
| Number of attendances and general treatments | 29,171 |
| „ local treatments | 2,898 |
| „ examinations | 2,813 |
| „ new patients | 581 |
| „ discharges | 592 |
| „ maternity and child welfare cases under treatment during the year | 281 |
| „ tuberculous patients under treatment durthe year | 61 |
(The Maternity and Child Welfare patients formed 30.5 per
cent, of the total number under treatment and the tuberculosis
patients 5.7 per cent.)
All patients attending for treatment are recommended by
general practitioners or by medical officers of the Maternity and
Child Welfare Centres, the Tuberculosis Dispensary or Hospitals.
Every patient is examined by a member of the medical staff before
and during treatment and a medical officer is on duty in the
Solarium during six of the sessions each week.
There has been a slight decrease in the number of attendances
at the Solarium during the year. To a considerable extent this
has been due to the limited and inadequate accommodation in the
present buildings and I hope work on the new buildings will not
now be long delayed.
The Centre was closed again for three weeks in August, in
order to allow the whole staff to take their summer holiday at a
time when attendance is always very irregular, owing to the
school holidays.
The largest group of cases completing treatment during the
year consisted of patients suffering from anemia, debility and