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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 1939

Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1939

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IV.—LIGHT TREATMENT,
ELECTRO-THERAPY
AND MASSAGE.
The following table shows the work done in the Solarium during
1939. The figures given are practically those for the first seven
m6nths of the year. The department was closed for holidays in
August and owing to the war did not re-open until December.
Total Number of Attendances 30,693
Number of Individual Patients 1,482
Number of Treatments 67,278
Massage 6,113
Medical Electricity 3,057
Diathermy 7,723
Physical Exercises 1,184
Local Treatments —
Radiant Heat and Ultra Violet Light 17,732
General Ultra Violet Light 30,693
Mechanical Vibratory Massage 18
Q-Ray Pad 758
Number of Medical Examinations 3,411
Number of New Cases 805