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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

Hammersmith 1952

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

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choose a doctor residing in an adjoining Borough. Again, it
sometimes happens that there is a relative shortage of doctors
in one district and a comparative surplus in the rest. The
Council reviews the position from time to time in consultation
with the Medical Practices and the Local Medical Committees.
Assistant medical practitioners are not included in this table,
but for the purpose of ascertaining the number of fully active
principals such a practitioner is regarded as equal to one-half of
a principal practitioner. The value of full-time assistants on this
basis has been added to the number of fully active principals
and used as the divisor in determining the average number of
patients on the list in each Borough. Principal practitioners
with "limited lists" are not regarded as "fully active."

Table: 1950

1950

City or BoroughNo. of PrincipalsFully Active PrincipalsNo. on Lists of Fully Active PrincipalsAverage No. of Patients on List
Battersea3736108,0192,806
Bermondsey191957,9652,696
Bethnal Green191959,1272,816
Camberwell7270187,7232,520
Chelsea312844,4631,533
City of London and Shoreditch232042,1182,055
Deptford3433102,0932,917
Finsbury171741,4712,304
Fulham5654129,4102,231
Greenwich252474,2442,802
Hackney8484177,5012,040
Hammersmith120118120,730977
Hampstead20119692,471467
Holborn151319,0351,464
Islington133131246,7081,869
Kensington145133143,4951,059
Lambeth102100219,9282,075
Lewisham117114213,9491,805
Paddington8987104,5631,168
Poplar383874,0431,899
St. Marylebone756570,1441,062
St. Pancras6159133,4982,188
Southwark3737108,4652,746
Stepney5151107,7352,052
Stoke Newington525256,1901,041
Wandsworth243238319,0561,308
Westminster595078,8251,546
Woolwich8787145,9181,577
Total2,0421,9733,278,8871,599