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Redbridge 1968

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Redbridge]

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MASS RADIOGRAPHY APPENDIX 3
The mass radiography unit stationed at Vine Church Hall operated on Mondays from
1st January to 1st July, 1968 and again from 12th August, 1968 to the end of the year.

The service is still in operation and Dr.R.S.Francis, the Medical Director, haskindlysupplied me with the following preliminary figures relating to the period under review.

MaleFemaleTotal
Referred by General Practitioners1,8611,5273,388
General Public3,2333,3416,574
Organised Groups3612,1652,526
Contact Groups37643
Total Number X-rayed5,4927,03912,531

VENEREAL DISEASES

Treatment received by new cases from Redbridge during 1968,as notified by the undernoted Treatment Centres

Name of CentreSyphilisGonorrhoeaOther ConditionsTotal
The Whitechapel Clinic,London Hospital, E.1.1267545624
Homerton Grove Clinic,Eastern Hospital, E.9-279
Special Clinic,Queen Mary's Hospital, E.15245965
St. Bartholomew's Hospital,London, E.C.1.112527
Albert Dock Hospital,London, E.16-12021
Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital,Greenwich--33
Lydia Dept., St. Thomas Hospital,London, S.E.1.-134
Oldchurch Hospital,Romford, Essex11982102
Totals1695744855