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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
Deptford 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford Borough]
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CHILD LIFE PROTECTION
Persons receiving children for reward. 16
Number of children involved 17
Total visits of Health Visitors 52
GYNAECOLOGICAL & POST-NATAL CLINIC
Sessions held 31
Total attendances 675
Total women who attended 239
TUBERCULOSIS
Cases notified for first time (Pulmonary 123
(Non-pulnonary 7
New cases coming to knowledge otherwise than
by formal Notification (Pulmonary 22
(Non-pulmonary 6
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY Cases on Dispensary Register 31/12/40 382
| Consultations between Practitioners and Tuberculosis Officer | 206 | Number of contacts examined. | .93 |
| Total attendances of patients and contacts at Dispensary. | 1,453 | ||
| Visits of Tuberculosis Officer to homes | 138 | ||
| X-ray examinations made in connection with Dispensary cases | 299 | ||
| Visits of Tuberculosis Health | |||
| Visitors to homes - | |||
| (To Dispensary cases | 2,653 | Total specimens of sputum examined at Dispensary | 765 |
| (To other cases | 1,256 |
CARE COMMITTEE
Recommendations for institutional treatment to Care Committee 172
Visits paid by Secretary 1,007
Interviews 914
Cases dealt with by Care Committee 634
Sums raised by Christmas Seals (1940) £55.15.9. Expenses £5.7.0
Grant from National Association,
to supplement above £14. 3.0.
SANITARY INSPECTION
Total primary inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors 3,383
Total re-inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors10,247
Total Intimation Notices served 941
Total Statutory Notices served 302
Cases in which legal proceedings were instituted to enforce
compliance with Notices 4
A considerable measure of dislocation of the routine work of
Sanitary Inspection occurred during the year, by reason of the assistance
required and freely given by my staff in connection with the supervision
of First Aid Posts and Stretcher Party Depots.
Later in the year, when the intensive air-raid attacks on the
metropolis developed, the Inspectors were also much occupied upon the
inspection of bombed sites and the examination and disposal of damaged
foodstuffs.