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East Ham 1946

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]

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SOCIAL WELFARE DOMICILIARY MEDICAL
SERVICE,
This scheme was described in my report for 1934. See also the
amendment as set out in the report for 1945.
The successful service is administrated with the minimum of
trouble.

TABLE 6.

SOCIAL WELFARE DOMICILIARY MEDICAL SERVICE. Statistical Return for the Year Ending 31/12/46.

No. of Individual PatientsNo. of Attendances at Homes.No. of Attendances at Surgery.Total No. of Attendances.No. of occasions Medicines supplied without seeing Patients
1,0391,8615,2427,103287

Number of applications to Medical Officer of Health
for hospital treatment 3
Social Welfare Nurse and Assistant Social Welfare Officer.
Number of requisitions received for attendance of
Nurse 5
Total attendances at home by Nurse 1,982
Venereal Diseases.
Facilities for treatment have continued as in previous years.

From the official tables supplied by the London County Council the following figures are abstracted and are compared with statistics for the year 1945:—

New Patients.19451946
Syphilis2221
Soft Chancre1
Gonorrhoea4363
Not Venereal133225
Total199309
Total attendances2,7263,251