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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

Shoreditch 1942

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: DISINFECTION

DISINFECTION

Steam: No.of housess dealt with1,485Number of articles destroyed1
No. of rooms dealt with1,404,, ,, persons (excluding school children)
No. of articles disinfected13,452cleansed : For vermin27
Hot air : No. of articles treated73,803For scabies1,078
Phenol vapourisers : No. of treatments544Shelters : No. of special sprayings3,510
No. of articles treated48,224No. of H.C.N, treatments
VACCINATION
Number of names received in birth lists215Certificates of insusceptibility received
Certificates of successful vaccination received105Statutory declarations of objections received104
„ „ postponement received2
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARYTUBERCULOSIS CARE WORK
No. of cases on Borough register on 1-1-42991New cases and re-registrations74
„ „ „ added in 19421 15Cases receiving extra nourishment82
„ „ „ deleted in 1942112,, given monetary help103
„ „ „ on Borough register on 31-12-42994,, given other help55
„ „ new cases (excluding contacts)163„ referred elsewhere for help55
,, „ contacts131
Total attendances2,258
Patients admitted to institutions89
Specimens of sputum examined378
X-ray examinations453
Domiciliary visits by medical officer121
„ „ „ T.B. visitors3,893

Table: MEDICAL AND DENTAL TREATMENT

MEDICAL AND DENTAL TREATMENT

(1) Service(2) No. of sessions heldNew Cases(7) Revisits(8) Total attendances
(3) 0-5(4) 5-15(S) 15 +(6) Total
General medical clinic26——133133313446
Gynaecological clinic52——240240456696
Foot clinic51411134614853,6214,106
Diphtheria immunization clinic1438651,029211,9152,9244,839
Dental hospital566792711,2311,5814,1635,744
FOOD, SHOPS, FACTORIES, ETC.
Samples of food taken for investigation628Inspections of mechanical factories683
Initial and routine inspections of shops under Shops Acts333„ „ non-mechanical factories119
„ workplaces56
Re-inspections of shops under Shops Acts56,, ,, outworkers' premises231
Inspections under Pharmacy and Poisons Act107Other Factories Act inspections—
.. of food premises and milk shops1,440Factories Act—intimation notices served ..25
SANITARY INSPECTION AND HOUSING
Number of complaints received803Number of house-to-house inspections mads
„ „ intimation notices served1,980„ „ re-inspections11,113
„ „ nuisance notices served276„ ,, notices served under section 9—
„ ,, premises under sanitary notice1,839Total visits of all inspections21,074
Letters written to owners and others947Samples taken under the Rag Flock Act10