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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
Poplar 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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satisfactorily), the Public Health Committee agreed that provision
should be made in the Annual Estimates for 1938-39 for the provision
and installation of an X-Ray screening plant.
Early in 1938 a letter was received from the London County Council
approving the proposal to renew the X-Ray screening apparatus at the
Dispensary by the purchase and installation of the Watson "Telestat"
unit.
Statistics for 1937.
The three following tables comprise the annual return for 1937
required by the Ministry of Health. The first provides a concise summary
of the work carried out during the year at the Dispensary, while the
other two show the classification of all patients remaining on the
Dispensary Register on December 31st, together with a cumulative
summary of all cases, whether lost sight of, recovered or dead.