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Regulations:—
No. 32.—The Public Health (Nursing Homes Registration Forms) Regulations, 1938.
No. 299.—The Public Health (Aircraft) Regulations, 1938.
Home Office:—
Rules:—
The Poisons (Amendment) Rules, 1938.
Regulations:—
No. 611.—The Sanitary Accommodation Regulations, 1938.
Orders:—
The Poisons List (Amendment) Order, 1938.
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries:—
Orders:—
Rabies Order, 1938.
APPENDIX C.
report on dermatological and actinotherapeutic department for the
year ended 31st december, 1938.
by h. d. haldin-davis, m.d., f.r.c.p., f.r.c.s.
The chief development which has taken place in the work of the dermatological department
during 1938, is that arrangements have been made for doing minor operations in the department,
and we are now able to deal with various cases such as plantar warts, naevi, etc., ourselves, instead
of having to send them on to hospitals to be treated. The diathermy apparatus has been extremely
useful. The total number of anaesthetics administered during the year is 44.
Clinically, an outstanding feature is the large number of cases of warts, both of the hands and
feet, and also in other situations, which have presented themselves for treatment during the last year.
There is no doubt that this complaint is far more frequent among children than it used to be, and
Willesden is by no means the only Borough where the increase has been noted. Fortunately warts
are not difficult to deal with, and can be cured satisfactorily in every case if surgical measures are
employed. They are, however, disfiguring, and sometimes persist for a good many months if only
treated with caustics and other local applications.
The clinic for the treatment of varicose ulcers has now been in existence eight years, and has
undoubtedly brought relief and, in many cases, cure, to numbers of the working women of the Borough.
We no longer see the terrible cases of large ulcers which were not uncommon in its early days.