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Walthamstow 1946

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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The number of patients from Walthamstow in Mental Hospitals
was 367 on the 31st December, 1946.
The Connaught Hospital.
The Secretary to the Hospital has kindly supplied the following
information: —
"Of the total number of in-patients admitted during the
year, 861 were residents of the Borough.

" The following figures show the progress of the Hospital during 1946 as compared with the previous vear

In-PatientsOut-Patients
No. AdmittedAverage StayDaily AverageNew CasesAttendances
19461,94018.7799.1317,13990,274
19451,76916.9581.1920,48791,499

"Particulars as to Staff, Beds and Departmental activities : —
There are 118 beds, including 10 private wards.
"Operations and Treatments during 1946:—720 major
operations and 3,154 minor operations were performed, making
a total of 3,874. 16,762 radiographs were taken. There were
17,176 massage treatments, also 25,549 electrical treatments and
1,535 artificial sunlight treatments at the Comely Bank Clinic ;
a total of 44,260 treatments at this Clinic."
Facilities at Comely Bank.—The following facilities for
electro-medical treatment are provided at Comely Bank : —Massage
Radiant Heat, Electrical Treatment and Sun Ray Treatment.
During 1946 a self-contained Nurses' Teaching Unit was erected
in the grounds of Comely Bank comprising two large class rooms with
ancillary accommodation.
Extensions were also commenced to the administration block
including an up-to-date enlarged kitchen with nurses' dining room
above and maids' bedrooms and sitting room on the top floor.
Venereal Disease Treatment.
Treatment is the responsibility of the Essex County Council
and all the facilities of the London County Council are available.
No special clinic facilities have yet been provided in Walthamstow.
Outfits for taking specimens from patients are provided for
practitioners, on request, by the Whitechapel (London County
Council) Clinic, Turner Street, Whitechapel, E.1.
It is understood that a treatment centre is to be erected in
1947 in the grounds of Comely Bank annexe to the Connaught
Hospital.