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Orders :—
No. 784.—The Midwives (Certifying Hospitals and Institutions) Order, 1937.
Scheme :—
Local Government Act, 1929. Welfare of the Blind (Contributions) Scheme, 1937.
Local Government Act, 1929. Treatment of Tuberculosis.
Home Office:—
Circulars:—
No. 701255/3.—Air Raid Precautions.
No. 701582/10.— Do.
No. 701092/14.— Do.
No. 701529/42.—Anti Gas Training.
No. 701562/22.— Do.
No. 4.—Air Raid Wardens.
APPENDIX C.
REPORT ON DERMATOLOGICAL AND ACTINOTHERAPEUTIC DEPARTMENT FOR THE
YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1937.
By H. D. HALDIN-DAVIS, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S.
The work of the Skin and Artificial Sunlight Clinics has continued on much the same lines as
usual during the last year, the numbers of children attending both departments being well
maintained, and there is no doubt about their continued popularity among the Mothers of Willesden.
A step has been taken in the direction of making the skin clinic more independent and self-contained
by the purchase of a diathermy machine, and its utilisation for the purpose of dealing surgically with
warts, moles, nsevi, and other cutaneous blemishes, which previously had to be referred to various
hospitals for treatment, as there were no facilities for this purpose in the Borough Health Centres.
The Department for the treatment of ulceration of the legs and allied conditions has once more proved
its utility and treated successfully many patients suffering from these disabling complaints. The
clinic has now completed seven years' work. Owing to the improvement in general in the treatment
of ulceration of the leg, we seldom meet with the enormous lesions previously common. Ulceration
of the leg is no longer regarded by patients as more or less hopeless, and they present themselves for
treatment at earlier stages, and with, on the average, excellent results. A few of the patients who
attended soon after the clinic was originally opened, still present themselves for treatment from time
to time, for even when it is possible to effect the healing of long standing ulceration, the resulting scar
frequently tends to break down for trivial causes, and hence renewed attention becomes necessary.
Nevertheless there is no doubt that with modern methods large numbers of patients, especially women,
are maintained in comfort, and are enabled to do their work and enjoy life, who previously were
condemned to chronic invalidism.