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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

Camden 1967

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camden]

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Table: revised version of the form was introduced by the Department of Health Security for use from 1st January 1969, differing in size and layout from version and fitting neatly into the standard N.H.S. medical record envelope.and Social the original

revised version of the form was introduced by the Department of Health Security for use from 1st January 1969, differing in size and layout from version and fitting neatly into the standard N.H.S. medical record envelope.

and Social the original

STATISTICS196619671968
33.3.1 New Registrations (Council's consultant, hospitals, etc.)
(a) Blind596356
(b) Partially-sighted496261
Total108125117
33.3.2 Certificates accepted from other local authorities
(a) Blind11712
(b) Partially-sighted741
Total181113
33.3.3 Re-examinations568580

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33.3.4 At the end of 1968 there were 482 blind and 241 partially-sighted persons on
the Registers, compared with 484 and 210 respectively at the end of 1967, and 498 and
194 at the end of 1966.
LONG-STAY IMMIGRANTS
34.1 To ensure the well-being and any necessary treatment of long-stay immigrants,
the follow-up of all those who gave destination addresses in Camden continued during
1967 and 1968 as recommended by the former Ministry of Health in Circular CMO 1/65.
During 1967 the port and airport immigration authorities notified the Council of the
names of 1,190 such immigrants.Of these, only 490 were successfully visited: they were
advised on the National Health Service, especially on the desirability of registering
with a general medical practitioner and having chest x-ray examinations. There were
210 in the medical and nursing professions who were considered not to require a visit.
Of those not contacted (50 per cent, of the total number considered to be at risk) it was
found that in 137 cases there was no such address as that given; that the immigrant was
not known at the address given; or that he remained there for too short a period for contact
to be made and left without giving his future address.
34.2 The corresponding figures for 1968 were 1,380 notified; 594 contacted; 160 in
the professions; and 626 not contacted. This steady failure rate of the order of 50 per
cent, cannot fail to raise doubts whether the scheme in its present form is of much value.
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