Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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The Department is able to provide a number of services for the tuberculous and a summary of the help available is set out overleaf:-
Home Nursing | Number of patients being attended by home nurses at the end of the year | 2 |
Home Help | Number of cases serviced by a home help during the year | 31 |
Extra nourishment | Number of cases receiving extra nourishment at end of year | 118 |
Boarding out | Number of children placed during year | 9 |
VENEREAL DISEASE
The Hackney Group Hospital Management Committee maintain two clinics, one
at Homerton Grove and the other at the Mothers' Hospital, but the Council
provides the venereal diseases social worker who follows up cases and endeavours
to trace the source of infection.
Details in respect of Hackney residents attending these clinics are set out below. Some residents from Hackney are known to attend clinics outside the Borough and details from other hospitals are also included:-
Hospital | No. of new cases in year | Total | |
---|---|---|---|
Gonorrhoea | Syphilis | ||
Moorfields | - | 6 | 6 |
Homerton Grove | 428 | 45 | 473 |
London | 324 | 31 | 355 |
Prince of Wales | 93 | - | 93 |
St. Thomas' | 5 | 1 | 6 |
Tot al | 850 | 83 | 933 |
PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE
Bacteriological specimens are sent to the Public Health Laboratory at County Hall, S.E.1 and analysis of the 1,501 specimens submitted for examination is set out below:-
Specimens | Number | Organisms | Results | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Negative | Positive | |||
Throat and Nose Swabs | 119 | Diphtheria Bacilli | 110 | _ |
Haemolytic Streptococci | 68 | 43 | ||
Vincent's Angina | 115 | - | ||
Faeces and Rectal Swabs | 1,330 | Pathogens | 1,066 | - |
Salmonella Enteritidis | - | 2 | ||
Salmonella Paratyphi B | - | 1 | ||
Salmonella Typhimurium | - | 5 | ||
Shigella Sonnei | - | 250 | ||
Salmonella Typhi | - | 4 | ||
Salmonella Derby | - | 2 | ||
Urine | 52 | Pathogens | 52 | - |