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Redbridge 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Redbridge]
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APPENDIX 3
MASS RADIOGRAPHY
The service is still In operation and Dr. H. Ramsay, the Medical Director, has kindly supplied me with the following preliminary figures relating to the period under review.
| Male | Female | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Referred by General Practitioners | 1,733 | 1,577 | 3,310 |
| General Public | 3,010 | 3,386 | 6,396 |
| Organised Groups | 393 | 1,925 | 2,318 |
| Contact Groups | 39 | 23 | 62 |
| Total No. X-Rayed | 5,175 | 6,911 | 12,086 |
In addition —
Males Females Total
1,063 1,272 2,335
were x-rayed by the mobile unit operating at five different sites during 1967 in
the Wanstead and Woodford area.
APPENDIX 4
VENEREAL DISEASES Treatment received by new cases from Redbridge during 1967, as notified by the undernoted Treatment Centres
| Name of Centre | Syphilis | Gonorrhoea | Other Conditions | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Whitechapel Clinic, London Hospital, E.l | 9 | 67 | 447 | 523 |
| Homerton Grove Clinic, Eastern Hospital, E.9. | - | 2 | 17 | 19 |
| Special Clinic, Queen Mary's Hospital, E.15 | 1 | 3 | 40 | 44 |
| St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, E.C.I. | - | 3 | 23 | 26 |
| Albert Dock Hospital, London, E.16 | - | 2 | 28 | 30 |
| Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich. | - | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Lydia Dept., St. Thomas Hospital, S.E.I. | - | - | 4 | 4 |
| Oldchurch Hospital, Romford. | 1 | 5 | 66 | 72 |
| Totals | 11 | 83 | 627 | 721 |