London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Haringey 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Haringey]
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Staff Medical Assessments, Examinations and Sick Pay Reports
There was an increase in the number of combined medical assessments during the year 1969, from
1806 in 1968 to 2095 in 1969. This was partly due to a further increase in the number of medical
• assessments for the Education Department. These came to a total of 982 which reflected the
rapid turnover of employees as supervising assistants in the School Meals Service. There were
also more requests by the Department for Special Medical Assessments, including those of employees
who had resigned from work on grounds of ill-health, and some manual employees whose short term
sick leave appeared excessive.
Medical Assessment of New Applicants without Medical Examination
| Architects | 5 |
| Baths Department | 10 |
| Catering Department | 3 |
| Cemeteries Department | 0 |
| Chief Executive's Department | 59 |
| Children's Department | 65 |
| Cleansing and Transport Department | 8 |
| Education Department | 982 |
| Engineer and Surveyor's Department | 88 |
| Health Department | 125 |
| Housing Department | 18 |
| Libraries Department | 19 |
| Park's Department | 2 |
| Town Planning Department | 8 |
| Treasurer's Department | 18 |
| Welfare Department | 36 |
| Tottenham Technical College | 42 |
| Hornsey College of Art | 46 |
| 1,534 |
Medical Examination of New Applicants
| Children's Department | 1 |
| Engineer and Surveyor's Department | 5 |
| Treasurer's Department | 1 |
| Welfare Department | 1 |
| Tottenham Technical College | 3 |
| 11 | |
| Education Department | |
| Non-Teachning | 10 |
| First Appointment Teachers | 98 |
| Teacher Trainees | 183 |
| Hornsey College of Art (end of term teachers) | 47 |
| 338 | |
| Reports on Sick Pay Cases without medical examination | 78 |
| Reports on Sick Pay cases with medical examination | 46 |
| Special Assessments of employees without medical examination | 40 |
| Special Assessments of employees with medical examination | 43 |
| Medical Examination of Staff over 70 years of age | 5 |
| Employee returned to work or resigned before report completed | 76 |