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The services provided by the Health Area Sub-Committee
include Health Education, Home Visiting and Home Nursing, the
provision of Home Helps, extra nourishment and care and aftercare.
These services are more fully referred to in the later section
of the Report.
5. Mass Radiography. The Mass Radiography Unit re-visited
Walthamstow in 1952 and 1953. In 1952, the premises of one
industrial firm were visited and a total of 426 persons were
examined, one active post'primary case being discovered, together
with two inactive primaries and six inactive post-primary cases.
One case of lung cancer and one heart condition were also
discovered.
The 1953 examinations covered visits to the Old Monoux
School Yard, where the main hall of the Youth Employment Centre
became available through the co-operation of the Walthamstow
Committee for Education. Organised groups of school staff and
children were seen over a period of several weeks, and certain
public sessions were also held. The findings in the school group
are more fully referred to in the Report of the Borough School
Medical Officer. In addition, examination centres were set up at
the South-West Essex Technical College, and at seven industrial
premises. The total of examinations was 15,383 as compared with
11,153 at the previous visit in 1950. Included in these totals are
3,743 in the school group, as compared with 4,414 in the same
group in 1950. The detailed findings in regard to adult examinations
were not available at the time of writing.
Care and After-Care.
This matter is dealt with under Section "G" of the Report.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH (INFECTIOUS DISEASES)
REGULATIONS, 1953.
These Regulations became effective on the 1st April, 1953, and
supersede the Regulations for 1927. Ministry of Health Circular
6/53 explains the purpose of the new Regulations in the following
terms:—
"In their general substance and form the new regulations
are similar to the old; that is to say, they require notification
of malaria, dysentery, acute primary pneumonia and acute
influenzal pneumonia, and provide for preventive steps to be
taken against the spread of certain diseases specified in the
Fourth Schedule to the regulations. This schedule has now