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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
Islington 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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Chest Clinics
Patients may be referred, or persons may attend for examination to the following
centres:-
Islington Chest Clinic, St. Mary's Wing, Whittington Hospital. N. 19.
St. Pancras Chest Clinic, Margaret Street, St. Marylebone, W. 1.
Mass X-Ray Unit of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. 32 Drayton Park, N.5.
Cases on Chest Clinic Registers
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adults | Children | Adults | Children | Adults | Children | |||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| No. of definite cases of Tuberculosis on Chest Clinic Register as at 31st December, 1967. | ||||||||||||
| Islington C. C. | 924 | 567 | 42 | 48 | 63 | 81 | 3 | 8 | 987 | 648 | 45 | 56 |
| St. Pancras C. C. | 68 | 31 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 68 | 38 | 13 | 10 | ||
| Total | 992 | 598 | 54 | 58 | 63 | 88 | 4 | 8 | 1055 | 686 | 58 | 66 |
| Grand Total | 1865 | |||||||||||
The Chest Clinic at Finsbury Health Centre closed on 31st July by the decision of the
North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. Patients were transferred to the Islington
Chest Clinic or, if they preferred, to the City of London Chest Clinic at St. Bartholomew's
Hospital. The Regional Hospital Board also transferred to the Islington Chest Clinic the
out-patient service for tuberculosis patients living in the Hornsey part of the Borough of
Haringey, following the closure of Finchley Chest Clinic. Arrangements were made for the
welfare and clerical duties to be carried out for the Hornsey patients subject to reimbursement
of the cost by the London Borough of Haringey.
Islington Chest and Tuberculosis Care Committee
During the difficult period of the change-over, with all the work involved, the problems
of the patients were dealt with and no appeal went unanswered.
50 patients enjoyed an outing to the sea-side which was paid for mainly by the proceeds
of a concert given by the Starliners.
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