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B.—GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
IN THE AREA.
1. Public Health Officers of the Authority
There were no changes in the officers employed by your
Authority.
2. Laboratory Facilities
(See I.D. Section.)
3. Ambulance Facilities
These are available from a local depot in Walthamstow which
is administered centrally from Chelmsford.
4. Scabies Clinic
The arrangements at the Special Treatment Centre detailed in
previous reports were continued.
The Clinic premises are situated at the back of the Public
Baths in High Street and treatment is my appointment only, i.e.,
through the family doctor or the Health Department.
Owing to a decrease in the number of cases requiring treat'
ment, sessions were reduced to two per week, i.e., on Monday
evenings and Saturday mornings as from 17th July, 1950.
The total cases treated during 1950 were 62, involving 140
treatments.
Facilities were made available to Leyton patients on the same
basis as those from Wanstead/Woodford and the Forest Division,
i.e., at a fee of 7/6d. per treatment, payable by the Local Sanitary
Authority. There were 16 such treatments in 1950 out of the total
specified above.
5. Hospital Accommodation
(a) Acute Cases.—There were no major changes in 1950 in
regard to the hospital accommodation available for the inhabitants of
the Borough.
The third Annual Report of the Forest Group, Hospital
Management Committee, refers to the continuing shortage of beds,
e.g., there were only 400 beds available for "acute" cases against
the 1,400 which are required on the basis of five beds per thousand
population. This does not take into account the complete lack of
beds for chronic and long stay cases.
(b) Chronic Cases.—In order to ease the shortage in regard
to accommodation for the chronic sick, the Board has a user
arrangement for beds at three Nursing Homes in the Management
Committee's area, and these are stated to be proving invaluable.