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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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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The following table shows the annual number of new cases and deaths over a period of 10 years.
| Year | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notifications | Deaths | Notifications | Deaths | Notifications | Deaths | |
| 1945 | 111 | 35 | 11 | 6 | 122 | 41 |
| 1946 | 91 | 44 | 17 | 3 | 108 | 47 |
| 1947 | 89 | 41 | 9 | 4 | 98 | 45 |
| 1948 | 130 | 47 | 14 | 5 | 144 | 52 |
| 1949 | 118 | 33 | 9 | 4 | 127 | 37 |
| 1950 | 130 | 31 | 15 | 4 | 145 | 35 |
| 1951 | 100 | 35 | 14 | 5 | 114 | 40 |
| 1952 | 114 | 29 | 13 | 2 | 127 | 31 |
| 1953 | 78 | 35 | 13 | 4 | 91 | 39 |
| 1954 | 70 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 77 | 11 |
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH
SERVICES IN THE AREA
i. PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICERS OF THE AUTHORITY.
Medical.
There were no changes in the medical staff during the year.
Dental.
No full-time dental officers have been appointed during the year, but
several temporary part-time officers were employed.
Nursing.
Two Health Visitors (Mrs. I. M. Adamson and Miss M. J. Charters)
resigned their appointments with the Local Health Authority during the year.
One Health Visitor (Miss B. Jukes) was appointed and two successful students
from the County Health Visitors' Course were allocated to the area (Miss K.
Rayment and Miss O. Phillips).
Sanitary Inspection.
Early in the year there were 10 Sanitary Inspectors employed by the
Local Sanitary Authority, but since that time there has been a serious depletion
of staff, and at the end of the year there were only 6 Sanitary Inspectors
out of a total establishment of 12.