London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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REGULATIONS.
Administration of Outdoor Assistance.
Blind Persons Act, 1920.
Domiciliary Assistance to Necessitous Blind Persons.
Cleansing and Disinfection (Diseases of Animals Acts).
Closing Orders for Barbers and Hairdressers, Butchers,
Chemists, Grocers, etc.
Council Housing Estates.
Fire Brigade.
Administrative Scheme under Local Government Act, 1929.
Public Assistance Domiciliary Medical Service.
Allotments.
Scheme for Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Scheme in relation to Domiciliary Service of Midwives.
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 7.
Public Assistance Domiciliary Medical Service. Statistical Return for the Year Ending 31.12.37.
| 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,380 | 5,347 | 15,435 | 20,782 | 1,218 | 1,271 |
Number of cases urgently admitted to hospital .... 4
Number of applications to Medical Officer of
Health for hospital treatment .... .... .... 69