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Results of Smears
Adenocarcinoma 1
Malignant squamous cells 1
Atypical squamous cells 1
Trichomonas vaginalis 16
Mycelia present 2
No abnormality detected 369
No smear taken or nothing on slide 7
It is known that 2 women had subsequent hospital treatment and that a
third is still under supervision.
Age distribution
Age
Under 20 3
20 - 25 34
26 - 30 50
31-35 58
36 - 40 49
41-45 50
46 - 50 54
51-55 32
56-60 33
61 and over 34
The social class of married women attending was analysed according to
husband's occupation using the Registrar General's Classification of Occupations
1966.
Socio- Economic Group
Professional workers 6
Employers and managers in central and local
government, industry, commerce, etc. 3
Own-account workers (non-professional) 20
Foremen and supervisors (manual). Skilled manual workers 96
Intermediate and junior non-manual workers in offices, etc. 58
Personal service and semi-skilled manual workers 77
Unskilled manual workers, armed forces and
agricultural workers 35
Total 295
The Health Committee has since decided that a campaign with the mobile unit
should be an annual event as it is felt to arouse interest and meet a need not
covered by the static clinic Sessions.
The number of Cytology Clinics has remained as before. Of the three
sessions held at Child Health Centres, two are held in the evenings and one in
the afternoon. Attendances in 1970 were slightly less than in 1969 but on the
whole requests for appointments seemed fairly steady.
The Stoke Newington Women's Cancer Campaign continued their publicity
efforts and organised a meeting in April when three films on breast and cervical
cancer were shown.
One of the Principal Medical Officers was present to answer subsequent questions.