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B—GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
IN THE AREA.
1. Public Health Officers of the Authority
The names and qualifications of officers employed by your
Authority are given at the beginning of the Report. All are
whole-time officers unless otherwise stated.
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 by appointment only, i.e.,
through the family doctor or the Health Department.
Owing to a decrease in the number of cases requiring treatment,
sessions were reduced to one per week with effect from the
1st January, 1952.
The number of cases treated during 1951 was 42 involving
82 treatments.
Facilities remained 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 15 such treatments in 1951 out of the total
specified above.
5. Hospital Accommodation
(a) Acute Cases.—There were no major changes in 1951 in
regard to the hospital accommodation available for the inhabitants of
the Borough.
(b) Chronic Cases.—Regional Hospital Boards have asked
that Medical Officers of Health shall support when necessary on
social grounds," the recommendations of medical practitioners for
the admission of the chronic sick to hospital. All possible help was
given when requested but even so, at the end of 1951, 17 elderly
chronic sick patients still awaited admission to a suitable hospital.