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ORTHOPAEDIC TREATMENT
Details of this scheme were set out in my Report for 1939. Financial
assistance was rendered for the supply of surgical appliances in 1 case during
the year.
ESTABLISHMENTS FOR MASSAGE OR SPECIAL TREATMENT
Consideration was given to the question of licences for establishments
for massage and special treatment with particular reference to the technical
qualifications necessary for the granting of such licences. As a result, the
Council resolved that Part 7 of the Middlesex County Council Act, 1934, be put
into operation in the Borough. 2 licences were granted during the year.
INCIDENCE OF LICE
Ministry of Health Circular 2306 and Board of Education Circular 1544 were
received, and in accordance with the provision contained therein, a full report
so far as Edmonton is concerned was submitted. I was able to report that
although the recurrence percentage of those who suffer is high, I was glad
to say that the percentage incidence is very low, although I am not in a
position to mike any statement other than that concerning the School Medical
Service. •
I submitted the following suggestions for. improvement
1. That the provisions of the Education Act, 1921, be extended
to all pro-school children,
2. That health visitors and school nurses have the right of
entry similar to that of the Sanitary Inspectors as at
present, for the purpose of this work.
Copies of the report were submitted to the Ministry of Health and the
Board, of Education.
LANDLORD AND TENANT - WAR DAMAGE AMENDMENT ACT, .1941
The Senior Sanitary Inspector (Mr. W. Tillcock) has been empowered to carry
out the provisions of the above Act as to inspections and issuing of certificates
of repairs executed at-premises suffering from war damage.
LOUSE-BORNE TYPHUS FEVER
Ministry -of Health Circular 2513 Was received too late in the year for a
report to be made there on, but a letter was addressed to the medical practitioners
in the Borough outlining the contents of the Circular and inviting their close
co-operation with the Public Health Department, the services of which would at
all times be at their disposal.
TREATMENT OF SCABIES
Having regard to the lack of accommodation at the Council's Cleansing
station, arrangements were made with the Hornsey Borough Council for the
treatment of Edmoton adult males at their station, for which a charge of
5/-d. per treatment is charged.
Details of the Scabies Order, 1941, were reported to the Council and each
of the Sanitary Inspectors, health visitors and school nurses were given
authority to enter premises for the purpose of making inspections under the
Order.
TUBERCULOSIS
The table overleaf gives details of the., ages and sex of new cases ox
Tuberculosis, also deaths from the disease; this latter figure includes
the deaths of non-notified cases