Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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DISINFECTION
Steam : no. of houses dealt with | 1,125 | Number of rats destroyed (estimated) | 6,582 |
no. of rooms dealt with | 1,121 | „ ,, persons (excluding school children) | |
no. of articles disinfected | 15,306 | cleansed : for vermin | 6 |
Hot air : no. of articles treated | 87,881 | for scabies | 899 |
Phenol vapourisers : no. of treatments | 387 | Shelters : no. of special sprayings | 3,660 |
no. of articles treated | 30,470 | no. of HCN treatments | 1 |
Number of articles destroyed | 3 |
VACCINATION
Number of names received in birth lists | 268 | Certificates of insusceptibility received | - |
Certificates of successful vaccination received | 118 | Statutory declarations of objections received | 135 |
„ „ postponement received | 11 | ||
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY | TUBERCULOSIS CARE WORK | ||
No. of cases on Borough register on 1-1-43 | 383 | New cases and re-registrations | 97 |
,, ,, ,, added in 1943 | 104 | Cases receiving extra nourishment | 598 |
,, ,, ,, deleted in 1943 | 73 | ,, given monetary help | 140 |
,, „ „ on Borough register on 31-12-43 | 414 | ,, given other help | 82 |
„ „ new cases (excluding contacts) | 187 | ,, referred elsewhere for help | 48 |
,, ,, contacts | 167 | TUBERCULOSIS ALLOWANCES | |
Total attendances | 2,857 | ||
Patients admitted to institutions | 82 | Applies, for maintenance allowances | 43 |
Specimens of sputum examined | 380 | Maintenance allowances granted | 40 |
X-ray examinations | 604 | do. existing at end of year | 20 |
Domiciliary visits by medical officer | 185 | Discretionary allowinces made | 4 |
„ „ ,, T.B. visitors | 3,425 | Special allowances made | 18 |
MEDICAL AND DENTAL TREATMENT
(1) Service | (2) No. of sessions held | New Cases | (7) Revisits | (8) Total attendances | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(3) 0-5 | (4) 5-15 | (5) 15+ | (6) Total | ||||
General medical clinic | 26 | - | - | 87 | 87 | 265 | 352 |
Gynaecological clinic | 52 | - | - | 242 | 242 | 467 | 709 |
Foot clinic | 640 | 6 | 26 | 691 | 723 | 5,304 | 6,027 |
Diphtheria immunization clinic | 152 | 651 | 330 | 81 | 1,062 | 3,265 | 4,327 |
Dental hospital | 557 | 57 | 257 | 1,179 | 1,493 | 4,627 | 6,120 |
FOOD, SHOPS, FACTORIES, ETC.
Samples of food taken for investigation | 589 | Inspections of mechanical factories | 714 |
Initial and routine inspections of shops under Shops Acts | 245 | ,, „ non-mechanical factories | 69 |
,, ,, workplaces | 78 | ||
Re-inspections of shops under Shops Acts | 46 | ,, outworkers' premises | 161 |
Inspections under Pharmacy and Poisons Act | 89 | Other Factories Act inspections | 1 |
„ of food premises and milk shops | 1,105 | Factories Act—intimation notices served | 8 |
SANITARY INSPECTION AND HOUSING
1 lumber of complaints received | 924 | Number of house-to-house inspections made | - |
,, intimation notices served | 1,855 | ,, „ re-inspections | 12,232 |
,, nuisance notices served | 292 | ,, notices served under section 9 | — |
,, premises under sanitary notice | 1,590 | Total visits of all inspections | 20,703 |
Letters written to owners and others | 1,078 | Samples taken under the Rag Flock Act | 5 |