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Shoreditch 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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DETAILS OP SOME SURVEYS DURING 1957.
| CENTRE & PERIOD | GROUPS EXAMINED | No.of Persons Examined. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | ||
| MASS RADIOGRAPHY CENTRE, 20,Golden Lane,London,E.C.l. 1st January - 30th April | Office and Factory Staff in the City of London,Boroughs of Finsbury and Shoreditch. Health and Teaching Staffs in Divisions 3,4 and 5. Individuals. Doctors' Patients. | 15,328 | 9,353 | 24,681 |
| BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH, Haggerston Library, 236, Kings land Road,E. 2. 21st May - 3rd June. | Office and Factory staffs in the neighbourhood. Hospital staff. Individuals. | 1,554 | 922 | 2,476 |
| MASS RADIOGRAPHY CENTRE, 20,Golden Lane,London,E.C.1. 7th August - 31st December. | As above. | 16,557 | 11,627 | 28,184 |
SHOREDITCH TUBERCULOSIS CARE COMMITTEE.
I am grateful to Miss Guest, the Secretary, for the following report of Care
Work for the year ended 31st December 1957.
"On 1st April 1957, following a decision of the North East Metropolitan Hospital
Board, patients living in a certain portion of the Borough of Hackney came under the
supervision of Dr.Cullen at the Shoreditch Chest Clinic. Because of this, the
financial and social needs of these patients necessarily also became the responsibility
of the Shoreditch Tuberculosis Care Committee instead of the Hackney and Stoke
Newington Tuberculosis Care Committee as heretofore. Roughly, 400 patients were so
transferred to this clinic, comparatively few of them, of course, requiring financial
help or having domestic worries of any kind. An amount of £31.10.0d. was transferred
to our fund from the Hackney and Stoke Newington Tuberculosis Care Fund to cater for
the needs of the transferred patients from 1-4-1957 to 31-10-1957 (in excess of help
obtained through statutory means). After that date it was considered that results
would be coming in from the 1957/1958 Christmas Seal Sale to cope with demands upon
the fund.
This Committee has, therefore, been coping with added problems during the year
to 31st December 1957, and we hope the patients so transferred to us have received
adequate help from the fund and also been enabled to obtain the requisite aid from
the various statutory bodies which exist to provide necessities for patients off
work through chest diseases. Councillor Mrs.L.Calfe (a member of the Hackney and
Stoke Newington Tuberculosis Care Committee) was co-opted on to this Committee to
help with the problems of patients living in the district taken over.