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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 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Artificial Pneumothorax
| Number of Inductions | 23 |
| Number of attempted Induction | 4 |
| Number discontinued | 9 |
| Number of Refills given | 536 |
| Number of Gases sent for Surgical Treatment. | 14 |
| For cauterisation of | 8 |
| For Thoracoplasty | 6 |
| Gold Salts. | |
| Number of Courses commenced | 78 |
| " completed from 1938 | 18 |
| " " " terminated during 1939 | 71 |
| Of those 71:- | |
| Complete courses | 42 |
| Incomplete courses | 29 |
| Radiography. | |
| Number of Films taken during 1939 | 457 |
| Bacteriology. | |
| Number of sputum specimens examined | 658 |
| Number of Blood Sedimentation Rates done | 42. |