London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Finsbury 1943

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finsbury Borough]

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

6.
SECTION B - GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES.
TREATMENT CENTRES AND CLINICS.
The attendances at the various Treatment Centres and Clinics have shown a steady
expansion since their inception and there were record attandances in most of them during
1943, as shown by the following, table.

Table: ATTENDANCES & C. AT TREATMENT CENTRES AND CLINICS.

ATTENDANCES & C. AT TREATMENT CENTRES AND CLINICS.

CLINIC1940194119421943
No. of SessionsNo. of New CasesTotal No. Atts.No.of SessionsNo. of New CasesTotal No. Atts.No. of SessionsNo. of New CasesTotal No. Atts.No. of SessionsNo. of New CasesTotal No. Atts.
FOOT CLINIC61743026285104702343833655460011958496638
DENTAL CLINIC1897052833187694294331290738583279864291
SOLARIUM50647481014154537267473772315449969314567
WOMEN'S CLINIC6312050619622034918650245119373
TOTALS1375172914068113116791275616672520221142066264725869

Text

Copy text to clipboard

It was found necessary to obtain additional assistance and equipment for the Foot
Clinic to deal with the additional work and additional sessions were necessary in the dental
clinic and solarium.
LABORATORY:
Routine examinations of swabs, sputum, milks, &c., have continued to be carried
out at the Laboratory in the Health Centre and the following is a brief summary of the work
undertaken-
No. of throat and nasal swabs examined. 782
No. of sputums examined for T.B. 213
Milk samples 98
The Council has now an arrangement whereby special examinations are undertaken
at the Archway Group Laboratories by the L.C.C. Group Pathologist, Doctor J.M. Alston.