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Public Assistance Nurse and Assistant Relieving Officer
Number of requisitions received for attendance of
nurse 43
Total attendances at homes by nurse 1519
Total visits to Maternity cases for enquiry and
registration 322
Dr. Brews, the District Medical Officer, for the North Woolwich
area, dealt with the following cases during 1938 :—
Number of individual patients 72
Number of attendances at homes 357
Number of attendances at surgery 307
Total number of attendances 664
Number of occasions medicines supplied without
seeing patients 12
Venereal Diseases.
The same facilities were available as in recent years for the
treatment of these diseases, and from the official tables supplied
by the London County Council the following figures are
abstracted :—
New Patients.
Syphilis 18
Soft Chancre 2
Gonorrhoea 84
Not Venereal 136
Total 240
Total attendances of all patients 11,020
Number of in-patient days during 1938 182
The total attendances decreased and in-patient days in
hospitals increased.