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 | 773 | Number of rats destroyed (estimated) | 15,461 | ||||
no. of rooms dealt with | 746 | ,, „ persons (excluding school children) | |||||
no. of articles disinfected | 1 1,1 10 | cleansed: for vermin | 55 | ||||
Hot air: no. of articles treated 22,230 | for scabies | 672 | |||||
Phenol vapourisers : no. of treatments | 50 | Shelters: no. of special sprayings | 684 | ||||
no. of articles treated | 5,1 13 | no. of HCN treatments | — | ||||
Number of articles destroyed | 48 | ||||||
VACCINATION | |||||||
Number of names received in birth lists | 261 | Certificates of insusceptibility received | - | ||||
Certificates of successful vaccination received | 162 | Statutory declarations of objections received | 86 | ||||
„ „ postponement received | - | ||||||
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY TUBERCULOSIS CARE WORK | |||||||
No. of cases on Borough register on 1-1-4 5 | 1,056 | New cases and re-registrations | 78 | ||||
„ ,, ,, added in 1945 | 105 | Cases receiving extra nourishment | 114 | ||||
,, ,, ,, deleted in 1945 | 162 | ,, given monetary help | 107 | ||||
on Borough register on 31-12-45 | 999 | ,, given other help | 81 | ||||
,, ,, new cases (excluding contacts) | 218 | „ referred elsewhere for help | 41 | ||||
„ ,, contacts | 147 | ||||||
Total attendances | 2,988 | TUBERCULOSIS ALLOWANCES | |||||
Patients admitted to institutions | 67 | Applies, for maintenance allowances | 33 | ||||
Specimens of sputum examined | 412 | Maintenance allowances granted | 33 | ||||
X-ray examinations | 719 | do. existing at end of year | 20 | ||||
Domiciliary visits by medical officer | 115 | Discretionary allowances made | 8 | ||||
„ „ „ T.B. visitors | 3,755 | Special allowances made | 16 | ||||
MEDICAL AND DENTAL TREATMENT | |||||||
(1) Service | (2) No. of sessions held | (3) 0-5 | New Cases | (7) | (8) | ||
(4) 5-15 | (5) 15 + | (6) Total | Revisits | Total attendances | |||
General medical clinic | 29 | - | - | 86 | 86 | 232 | 318 |
Gynaecological clinic | 50 | — | — | 250 | 250 | 557 | 807 |
Foot clinic | 621 | 8 | 23 | 466 | 497 | 6,592 | 7,089 |
Diphtheria immunization clinic | 76 | 486 | 81 | 7 | 574 | 1,428 | 2,002 |
Dental hospital | 559 | 94 | 299 | 2,297 | 2,690 | 4,597 | 7,287 |
FOOD, SHOPS, FACTORIES, ETC. | |||||||
Samples of food taken for investigation | 541 | Inspections of mechanical factories | 542 | ||||
Initial and routine inspections of shops under | „ „ non-mechanical factories | 98 | |||||
Shops Acts | 200 | „ „ workplaces | 86 | ||||
Re-inspections of shops under Shops Acts | 18 | „ ,, outworkers' premises | 11 1 | ||||
Inspections under Pharmacy and Poisons Act | 113 | Other Factories Act inspections | — | ||||
„ of food premises and milk shops | 1,414 | Factories Act;—intimation notices served | 14 | ||||
SANITARY INSPECTION AND HOUSING | |||||||
Number of complaints received | 1,593 | Number of house-to-house inspections made | 216 | ||||
„ ,, intimation notices served | 2,191 | ,, re-inspections | 12,082 | ||||
,, ,, nuisance notices served | 414 | ,, ,, notices served under section 9 | — | ||||
„ „ premises under sanitary notice | 675 | Total visits of all inspections | 21,180 | ||||
Letters written to owners and others | 1,169 | Samples taken of Rag Flock | 3 |