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INFANT WELFARE CENTRE.
No. of Sessions (including sessions for Diphtheria Immunisation and Schick Testing) 97
Attendances:—
Under one year 369
Over one year and under five years 460
Mothers 35
864
Dentures provided 0
Home Helps provided 0
No. of children, under five years, immunised against Diphtheria 18 19
No. of children, over five years and under 15, immunised against Diphtheria 1
No. of injections 38
No. of Post Schick Tests and Readings 7
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Notifications received:—
These consisted of the following :—
Total cases
notified.
Cases admitted
to Hospital.
Chickenpox
1
0
Dysentery
7
7
Scabies
12
0
Measles
5
2
Whooping Cough
5
1
A*.
Tuberculosis
14
10
Lobar Pneumonia
1
1
Diphtheria
1
1
Malaria
1
1
PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES.
Tuberculosis Dispensary:—
No. of Sessions held 204
No. of Patients attending:—
Residents 2561
Non-residents 909 1165
No. of New Patients 253
No. of Resident Patients admitted to Sanatoria, Hospices, etc 10
No. of Artificial Pneumothorax Refills given 296
No. of Visits made to Homes 155
No. of Contacts kept under observation 16
Milk was supplied to two patients during the year.
During 1943, the Minister of Health made available to local authorities funds for the payment
of allowances to persons who have to give up remunerative work in order to undergo treatment,
either at home or in sanatorium. So far as the County of London is concerned the London County
Council are the Assessing Authority for the payment of allowances, but the Minister has laid down a
scale of payments which is as follows:—
A tuberculous married man with a dependent wife or a tuberculous wife whose husband is
dependent on her income, receives jointly 39s. per week while the patient is undergoing treatment at
home, this sum being decreased by ten shillings should the patient be in sanatorium. A single person
is entitled to 25s. per week, while away from work but not in sanatorium, such payments ceasing if
the patient enters sanatorium. Additional sums are payable in respect of dependent children, or
infirm persons, and allowances are made towards rent. These payments are only payable where
treatment is hoped to be " curative," and are not payable to "incurables,'" and in the former case
must only be paid for six months after discharge from sanatorium except with the approval of the
Minister. The object of these allowances is to enable patients to undergo curative treatment.
During the year allowances were paid to seven patients, in accordance with the above-mentioned
scale.
VENEREAL DISEASE CENTRE.
Sessions held daily except Sunday.
During the year a total of 841 persons attended the V.D. Treatment Centre at St. Bartholomew s
Hospital.
Cases of Syphilis numbered 374 (219 males and 155 females).
Cases of Gonorrhoea numbered 164 (149 males and 15 females).
303 cases (221 males and 82 females) attending were found not to be suffering from any venereal
disease.
Of the cases of Syphilis attending for the first time only 13, including two Service cases, were in
the primary stage.
16 were in the secondary stage and 39 in later stages.
Four were cases of congenital syphilis.
141 cases of syphilis were still under treatment or observation from the previous year.
31 who had been removed from the register, returned suffering from a relapse. 30 cases attended
Bart's for the first time but had commenced their treatment elsewhere.
Of the cases of Gonorrhoea, 77 attended in the first year of infection and 19 in later stages. 51
were continuing treatment or observation from the previous year; 13 were cases which had relapsed
and 4 attended Bart's for the first time having commenced their treatment elsewhere.