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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 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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CASES sent for SURGICAL TREATMENT.
| For Cauterisation of Adhesions | 9 | ||||
| For Thoracoplasty | 4 | ||||
| For treatmentof T.3. Empyema | 3 | ||||
| For Orthopaedic treatment | 1 | ||||
GOLD THERAPY.
| Number of courses commenced | 32 | |||||
| Number of courses completed from 1942 | 1 | |||||
| Number of courses terminated in 1943 | 27 | |||||
Of these 27 - Complete Courses - 22.
Incomplete Courses - 5.
RADIOGRAPHY.
Number of Films taken in 1943 544
BACTERIOLOGY.
Number of sputum specimens examined 325
Number of blood sedimentation rates done 597
33.