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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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The attached table sets out the work of the Post-Infectious Disease Clinic:—
| Number of New Cases | 55 |
| Number of Examinations | 172 |
| Number of Re-Examinations | 117 |
| Number of Defects found | 40 |
| Result of Examination | Infectious Disease after which examined. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measles | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Whooping Cough | Acute Primary Pneumonia | |
| Number of patients found to be suffering from | |||||
| Malnutrition | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Heart Affection | – | 1 | 3 | – | – |
| Ear Affection | – | – | 1 | 1 | – |
| Nose Affection | 2 | – | – | 1 | – |
| Throat Affection | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Tonsils, enlarged or septic | 2 | – | 2 | 2 | – |
| Albuminuria | 2 | 4 | – | – | – |
| Dental Caries | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Spine Defect | – | 1 | – | – | – |
| Mental Defect | – | – | – | – | 1 |
POST-NATAL AMD SPECIAL CLINICS FOR WOMEN.
The total number of attendances at the Gynaecological Clinic
was 416; of these 170 patients attended for the first time.
The major portion of the patients seen at the clinic had a gynæcological
or menopausal complaint. The few patients who were
found to be suffering from some condition unsuitable for treatment
were transferred either to their own doctor or to hospitals.