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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 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 22 HOME NURSING - STATISTICS
| Year | TYPE OF CASE | Number of Patients who were 65 or over at the time of the first visit during the year | Number of Children who were under 5 at the time of the first visit during the year | Number of Patients who had more than 24 visits during the year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical | Surgical | Infectious Diseases | Tuberculosis | Maternal Complications | Others | Totals | |||||
| Number of cases attended by Home Nurses during the year L.H.A. | 1960 | 1,209 | 139 | 1 | 44 | 15 | 109 | 1,517 | 493 | 36 | 432 |
| 1961 | 1,246 | 122 | 8 | 21 | 4 | 35 | 1,436 | 610 | 22 | 523 | |
| Woolwich & Plumstead D.N.A. by arrangement | 1960 | 45 | 2 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 50 | 22 | 3 | 7 |
| 1961 | 39 | 2 | — | 3 | — | 5 | 49 | 15 | 5 | 11 | |
| Number of visits paid by Home Nurses during the year L.H.A. | 1960 | 48,607 | 5,267 | 38 | 2,302 | 109 | 191 | 56,514 | 36,821 | 177 | 45,721 |
| 1961 | 43,128 | 5,857 | 47 | 2,081 | 83 | 201 | 51,422 | 36,767 | 86 | 43,850 | |
| Woolwich & Plumstead D.N.A. by arrangement | 1960 | 863 | 40 | — | — | 19 | 6 | 928 | 589 | 22 | 507 |
| 1961 | 916 | 88 | — | 79 | — | 31 | 1,114 | 758 | 72 | 728 | |