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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
East Ham 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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For the period 1st October, 1933, to 30th September, 1934,
1,954 persons were treated and the cost for medical attention at
10s. per head (payable quarterly at 2s. 6d.) was £735. The
number of quarters in respect of which payment was made was
5,866, and of this total there were 2,220 quarters in which no
medical treatment was provided.
†All drugs supplied ex Chemists as from 1st
October, 1933.
*Includes administration expenses and cost of
pricing prescriptions.
The following is a statement of the drugs supplied for the past 4 years and also the cost of same for the first year of the scheme:—
| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year ending 31.3.31 | 331 | 0 | 1 |
| Year ending 31.3.32 | 252 | 18 | 11 |
| Year ending 31.3.33 | 293 | 19 | 2 |
| Year ending 31.3.34 | 507 | 3 | 4† |
| 1.10.33 to 30.9.34 | 715 | 0 | 0* |
Number of cases urgently admitted to hospital 17
Number of applications to Medical Officer of
Health for hospital treatment 1ll
Public Assistance Nurse.
Number of requisitions received for attendance of
nurse 52
Total attendances at homes by nurse 1,824
The Public Assistance Domiciliary Medical Service is available
for the whole of East Ham, except for a small area to the
South of King- George V. and Royal Albert Docks.
TABLE 5.
Public Assistance Domiciliary Medical Service. Statistical Return for the Year Ending 31.12.34.
| No. of individual patients. | No. of attendances at homes. | No. of attendances at Surgery. | Total No. of attendances. | No. of occasions medicines supplied without seeing patients. | No. of recommendations for extra nourishment. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,719 | 3,920 | 10,301 | 14,221 | 1,183 | 441 |