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East Ham 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Local Government Act, 1929.
A brief synopsis of the Council's administrative scheme as
approved by the Ministry of Health was set out in the 1930 Report,
and amendments to the same in later reports.
Public Assistance Domiciliary Medical Service.
The detailed scheme was set out in my report for 1934.
TABLE 6.
Public Assistance Domiciliary Medical Service. Statistical Return for the Year Ending 31.12.36.
| 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,507 | 4,952 | 15,435 | 20.387 | 1,325 | 812 |
Number of cases urgently admitted to hospital 3
Number of applications to Medical Officer of
Health for hospital treatment 92
Public Assistance Nurse and Assistant Relieving Officer
Number of requisitions received for attendance of
nurse 42
Total attendances at homes by nurse 1922
Number of Maternity cases 229
Total visits to such cases 513
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.
Dr. Brews, the District Medical Officer for this area (North
Woolwich), dealt with the following cases during 1936:—
Number of individual patients 70
Number of attendances at homes 322
Number of attendances at surgery 329
Total number of attendances 651