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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
Leyton 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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Payment for Treatment.
No. of cases paying for treatment 3,018 (65.30 per cent.)
No. of free cases 1,417 (30.65 „ )
No. of return visits of children
where no charge was made 187 ( 4.05 „ )
Receipts £329 1 9
Free Treatment.
Free treatment is given to persons who are unemployed, old
age pensioners and women who are in receipt of widows' pension.
During the year the numbers of such persons who received free treatment was 266, 20 per cent. of the total number of new cases. These 266 patients made 1,006 attendances.
| First Attendances (new cases). | Subsequent Attendances. | Total Attendances. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | |
| Old age pen-pensioners | 70 | 93 | 298 | 443 | 368 | 536 |
| Unemployed | 26 | 35 | 91 | 150 | 117 | 185 |
| Widows | — | 42 | — | 169 | — | 211 |
| Totals | 96 | 170 | 389 | 762 | 485 | 932 |
Defects Treated.
| Bursitis | 69 |
| Callosities | 282 |
| Corns, hard | 226 |
| Corns, soft | 66 |
| Corns, under nail | 27 |
| Hallux rigidus | 20 |
| Hallux valgus | 102 |
| Metatarsalgia | 64 |
| Nails, club | 45 |
| Nails, ingrowing | 55 |
| Pes cavus | 8 |
| Pes planus | 168 |
| Teno synovitis | 1 |
| Verruca pedis | 31 |
| Hammer toe | 25 |
| Perforating ulcer | 1 |
| Sinus (chiropodial) | 5 |
| Septic conditions | 25 |
| Conditions due to sprain | 12 |