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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
Barnet 1970
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet]
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Referrals (contd.):
| 10 & over | 37 | 17 | 54 | ||
| Total | 171 | 112 | 283 | ||
| Discharged Cases: | 100 | 48 | 148 | ||
| (of these, discharged for 2nd or subsequent time: | 33 | 11 | 44) | ||
| Relapsed Cases: | Discharged 1967: | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Discharged 1968: | 1 | 5 | |||
| Discharged 1969: | 16 | 10 | 26 | ||
| Discharged 1970: | 17 | 7 | 24 | ||
| Total | 38 | 18 | 56 | ||
| Total Sessions: | 92 | ||||
| Total Appointments: | 2524 | ||||
| Average Appointments Number/Session: | 27 | ||||
HOME DIALYSIS
Adaptations of homes to install artificial kidney machines
Department of Health Circular 2/68 describes the increasing use of artificial kidney
machines in patients' homes in the treatment of chronic renal failure. This form of
domiciliary treatment is being developed rapidly and in the London Borough of Barnet we
now have 10 patients undergoing this form of treatment in their own homes.
Hospital Authorities provide and maintain the dialysis equipment and also the
relevant medical services. They pay for the extra cost of electricity and for the installation
and rental of a telephone where this is necessary. They have no power to make adaptations to
adaptations to the home. This is vested in the Local Authority under Section 28 of the
National Health Service Act, 1946 and the Council make such charges for this service
as they consider reasonable, having regard to the means of any such person.
ESTABLISHMENTS FOR MASSAGE AND SPECIAL TREATMENT
The Total number of establishments registered at the end of the year under part
XII of the Middlesex County Council Act, 1944, was 38.
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