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Generating Stations, Glass Bottle Works, Rope Works, Ship propelling
works, Cement and Stone works, Cold Meat Storage, Merryweather's
Fire Engine factory, constructional engineering works,
Galvanising and sheet metal works, Brewery and Flour Mills. The
numbers employed at these factories range between 500 and 5,000
each while 17 smaller works each employ between 100 and 400.
The upper part of the Borough away from the river surrounds
the famous Greenwich Park and Blackheath, which together cover
275 acres. This is the main residential area of Greenwich and
comprises several large Council Estates of modern houses and flats
and numerous private dwelling houses in Blackheath, Charlton and
Kidbrooke.
The Greenwich Chest Clinic is a very well equipped modern
building with adequate accommodation. Under a re-organisation
scheme completed at the end of 1955 there are now two medical
consulting rooms, a Nurses' reception room, Almoner's office and
patients' waiting room, and a modern X-ray Department with a
4 valve 400 m.a. X-ray apparatus including tomograph and an
Odelca 70 mm. camera unit. A centralised and compact X-ray and
note filing room has now been arranged and more office accommodation
has been made available for the clerical staff. As will be stated
later in this report a domiciliary Occupational Therapist has now
been appointed and a room in the Clinic has been allocated to her to
serve as her headquarters. This is in addition to the ordinary outpatients
Occupational Therapy department which is continuing as
before.
Tuberculosis
At the end of 1955 there were 1,003 patients on the Chest Clinic
register, consisting of :—
Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis
Men Women Children Men Women Children
477 423 53 14 23 13
During the year there were 86 new notifications of pulmonary
Tuberculosis and 5 of non-pulmonary Tuberculosis.
There were 18 deaths of patients on the register but of these
only 9 were due to tuberculosis, as will be explained later.
Comparative figures for recent years are set out in the following
table:—