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CENTRAL SYRINGE STERILIZING UNIT
The Central Syringe Sterilizing Unit sterilized 11,336 syringes during the year.
This is an average of 218 syringes per week.
It will be appreciated, however, that the average weekly output increased from 1st
April, 1962, when the service was extended to the Ilford and Walthamstow Health Areas
and to the Lady Rayleigh Training Home. As a result of this the weekly average during
the last four months has been 350 syringes. This is still less than the original estimate
of 400-500 syringes weekly for the period of the pilot scheme, and is accounted
for by the introduction of oral poliomyelitis vaccine, it is hoped to extend the service
to the Barking Health Area next year. This would increase the average weekly number of
syringes sterilized to the original estimate of 500.
SECTION 27 - AMBULANCE SERVICE
This section of the National Health Service Act is the responsibility of the County
Council and is administered centrally. Leyton and Walthamstow combined use a station at
James Lane, Leytonstone, E.11, which opened on 29th September, 1961. I am indebted to
the County Medical officer of Health for supplying the following statistics relating
to the operation of the County Ambulance Service from this station during the year:-
Ambulance vehicles -12 Stretcher cases - 8,982
Dual purpose vehicles - 8 Other cases - 83,377
Total cases conveyed - 92,359
Total mileage - 292,625
Total emergency cases- 10,073
SECTION 28 - PREVENTION OF ILLNESS AND AFTEK CABE
Foot Clinic
I am indebted to the Chief Chiropodist for the following report on the work of
the Chiropody Service: -
'"Staff has been and continues to be the greatest problem. In July Mr.D.Waters
resigned after sixteen years service and Mrs.Levy and Mr.Evans, both sessional workers,
transferred to clinics outside the area which are nearer their homes. Mrs.A.Tong
resigned for domestic reasons. We were fortunate in securing the services of Miss J.
Thorne, M.Ch.S. who comnenced duty on 1st September for nine sessions a week.
Domiciliary sessions have had to be increased to six a week and from 18th September
Mr.R.Sadowski has been seconded to Wessex House for one session a week. This has left
thirteen sessions a week less than last year for clinical work and the waiting list for
treatment and between visits now up to four months and increasing, presents serious
problems.
Since the inception of the National Health Service it has been increasingly
appreciated that a chiropody service for the aged is essential if serious attempts are
to be made to keep the ageing population mobile. This has been stressed by the Guillftbard
Report, the B.M.A. Geriatric Sub-Committee and Professors Hobson, Pemberton McKeown
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