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Poplar 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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The 560 attendances for test feeds show what an amount of time and
patience had to be expended by the staff on this work.
A list of the different kinds of case may be of interest:—
| Chronic Infections | 3 |
| Deformities | 2 |
| Cyclical Vomiting | 1 |
| Mental Deficiency | 1 |
| Mismanagement | 1 |
| 8 |
Work of the Staff.—Throughout the year, the Staff have worked
admirably and shown the greatest enthusiasm. The excellence of the
results obtained reflects great credit on them. Good nursing is most
important in getting good results in these delicate children, and there
must be coupled with it in this special work a power of close observation.
For the Out-Patients, not only enthusiasm but a capacity for infusing
it into the mothers must be displayed. Success, in fact, depends very
greatly upon the Staff possessing these qualities. It is a pleasure to be
able to record the manner in which they have worked and the good results
that they have obtained.
ARTIFICIAL SUNLIGHT TREATMENT.
Dr. E. M. Layman, the Medical Officer in charge of Artificial Sunlight
Treatment, has submitted the following interesting report:—
I have pleasuie in submitting my report on the work of the Light
Department for 1929.
398 cases were treated, exclusive of those that failed to attend
sufficiently.
In order to comment on the effects of the treatment, I have classified
the cases according to their diseases or disordered states, and give in
each group the successes, moderate successes, and failures. Of all the
cases together (children), 233 were successes, or over two-thirds of the