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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
Hackney 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Details of infectious and contagious diseases notified in 1963 were as follows:-
| Anthrax | Nil | Meningitis (Acute) | 13 |
| Cholera | Nil | Ophthalmia neonatorum | 1 |
| Diphtheria | Nil | Plague | Nil |
| Dysentery | 61 | Poliomyelitis (Acute) | Nil |
| Encephalitis (Acute) | 1 | Scarlet fever | 50 |
| Enteric (Typhoid or Para-typhoid fever) | 6 | Smallpox | Nil |
| Tetanus | Nil | ||
| Food Poisoning | 26 | Tuberculosis | 101 |
| Infective Jaundice | 80 | Typhus fever | Nil |
| Leptospirosis | Nil | Whooping cough | 17 |
| Malaria | 1 | Yellow fever | Nil |
| Measles | 1,089 |
TUBERCULOSIS
Of the 101 primary notifications of tuberculosis 84 were in respect of
pulmonary tuberculosis and 17 in respect of non-pulmonary tuberculosis.
The number on the Department's tuberculosis register at the beginning
of the year was 1,047. After adding primary notifications and transfers in, ana
subtracting deaths, transfers out and recovered cases etc., the number on the
register fell to 1,652 by the end of the year.
The Department is able to provide a number of services for the tuberculous and a summary of the help available is set out below:-
| Home Visiting | Number of visits by tuberculosis visitors | 3,414 |
| Home Nursing | Number of patients being attended by home nurses at the end of the year | 7 |
| Home Help | Number of cases serviced by a home help during the year | 26 |
| Extra nourishment | Number of cases receiving extra nourishment at the end of year | 136 |
| Boarding out | Number of children placed during year | 5 |
VENEREAL DISEASES
During the year Hackney Group Hospital Management Committee closed its
clinic at the Mothers' Hospital leaving the Homerton Grove Clinic as the only
clinic situated in Hackney. The Council provides the venereal diseases social
worker who follows up cases and endeavours to trace the source of infection.
Details in respect of Hacknev residents attending this clinic are set out
below.
Some residents from Hackney are known to attend clinics outside the Borough and details from other hospitals are also included:-