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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
Finsbury 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finsbury Borough]
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Section "B" - General Provision Of Health Services
Treatment And CLINICS.
The attendances at the Various Treatment Contres and Clinics have
shovvn a further steady expansion and there wore record attendances in the Dental,
Foot,and Woman's Clinics.
ATTENDANCES &C. at TREATMENT CENTER AND CLINICS
| CLINIC | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No.of sess-, ions. | No. of new cases | Total No. Atts. | No.of Sess- | No. of new cases | Total No. At | No. of sessions . | NO. Of new cases | Total No. Atts. | No.of Sessions. | No. of i new cases | Total NO. Atts. | ||
| FOOT CLINIC | 1195 | 849 | 6638 | 1358 | 800 | 8037 | 1572 | 701 | 10244 | 1774 | 721 | 11121 | |
| Clinis | 327 | 986 | 4291 | 357 | 979 | 4413 | 423 | 1298 | 4967 | 527 | 1506 | 5747 | |
| Sol arium | 499 | 693 | 14567 | 415 | 529 | 10032 | 438 | 497 | 9122 | 605 | 464 | 9345 | |
| Women's Clinic | 45 | 119 | 373 | 44 | 52 | 321 | 47 | 90 | 295 | 59 | 194 | 738 | |
| Totals | 2066 | 2647 | 25869. | 2174 | 2360 | 22803 | 2480 | 2586 | 24628 | 2965 | 2885 | 26951 | |
As from 1st January, 1946, the charges in the Foot, Women's and Sunlight
Clinics to residents and to non-resident employees were increased to a more
economic level. The staff in the Foot Clinic was again increased to cope with
the additional attendances and part-time consultants were engaged in the Solarium
and in the Women's Clinic. The Council's Assessment Scheme was varied to
provide for free treatment to all Old , Pensioners who were without other
form of income.
LABORATORY: As from February, 1246 the Council employed a full-time Laboratory
Technician to undertake the work of the moratory, the scope of which was thereby
increased.
Routine examinations of swabs, sputum, milks, &c., were carried out and the following is a brief summary of the work undertaken
| No.of throat and nasal swabs examined | 357 |
| No.of sputums examined, for T.B | 195 |
| Milk samples . | 257 |
| Pathological specimens examined | 38 |
| Ice cream samples | 36 |
| Blood Counts | 66 |
| Urethral smears | 32 |
| Hycelium Investigations (Foot Clinic) | 191 |
The Council continued the arrangement whereby special examinations
are undertaken at the Archway Group Laboratories by the L.C.C.Group Pathologist,
Doctor J.M.Alston.