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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 1945
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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Attendances during 1945.
Number of patients treated 756
Children 302
Adults 454
Number of patients who had
| One routine treatment | 756 |
| Two „ „ | 368 |
| Three „ „ | 103 |
| Four „ „ | 24 |
| Five „ „ | 13 |
| Six „ „ | 1 |
| Local treatment, no bath | 197 |
| 1,462 |
Source of New Cases:—
| Referred by Hospitals | 45 |
| Referred by General Medical Practitioners | 307 |
| Referred by Council's Medical Staff | 146 |
| Contacts | 258 |
| 756 |
CIVIL AMBULANCE SERVICE.
In May, 1943, the control of the Council's fleet of three motor
ambulances was transferred from the National Fire Service to the
Council's Emergency Committee, and on 1st October of that year
the vehicles and equipment were transferred from Harrow Green
Fire Station to a newly built temporary garage in Auckland Road.
The vehicles were then manned by Civil Defence drivers and
attendants, and continued to be so manned until the disbandment
of the Civil Defence Organisation at the end of June, 1945. Thereafter
the Council engaged the services of the number of drivers
necessary to operate a modified service consisting of two ambulances
during the day shifts, and one ambulance during the night shift.
Later in the year, as more ambulance drivers became available,
authority was given for the engagement of personnel sufficient to
operate a 24-hour service on the lines of that in operation before
the war.