Report of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales.
- New South Wales. Department of Public Health
- Date:
- [1946]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![STATEMENT OF ROUTINE EXAMINATIONS. Table showing the Routine Examinations made for the various branches of the State Department of Public Health, other Government Departments, Subsidised Hospitals, etc. 1941. 1942. 1943. 1944. 1945. 1946. Health Department— Head Office Submissions . 27,097 20,205 16,245 14,254 21,465 31,407 David Berry Hospital . 13 9 60 Lidcombe State Hospital and Home . 2,855 2,262 1,866 1,845 1,952 1,879 Liverpool State Hospital and Home . 705 518 713 375 331 188 Newington State Hospital and Home . 226 117 182 72 37 42 Waterfall Sanatorium . 33 43 113 103 33 77 Medical Officer of Health, Metropolitan District . 5 2 Medical Officer of Health, Hunter River District . 41 15 22 6 3 Randwick Auxiliary (T.B.) Hospital . 578 1,539 1,591 1,402 1,168 817 Rachel Forster Hospital . 10,725 12,798 21,668 18,103 11,114 9,701 Commonwealth Government . 1,271 1,765 926 704 4,463 7,162 State Departments— Agriculture and Stock . 2 Education . 32 8 1 Child Welfare . Government Stores . Milk Board . 1,491 1,422 1,697 1,935 1,828 1,803 Police . 109 114 123 141 1,726 95 Prisons . 25 2 5,113 1,138 1,108 Railway . 35 36 12 3 Miscellaneous Government Departments . 16 4 45 331 76 Private Practitioners . 16,185 14,513 18,534 16,930 15,686 15,135 Public Hospitals . 29,057 24,268 27,875 27,897 29,856 32,827 Municipalities and Shires . 323 349 203 318 361 251 Mental Hospitals . ... ... ... ... ... 2,779 Total General Examinations . 90,822 79,982 91,811 89,204 91,496 105,415 Rats for Plague . 2,633 3,084 2,580 1,926 2,521 1,754 Total. 93,455 83,066 94,391 91,130 94,017 107,169 In the following Statement the Routine work is divided into Sections to disclose the purposes for which the various examinations were made :— 1941. 1942. 1943. 1944. 1945. 1946. Actinomycosis . 3 6 ] 1 5 Diphtheria Swabbings . 7,760 548 2,959 29 5,640 53 3,856 16 5,182 50 4,789 97 717 Diphtheria Toxicity . Haemolytic Streptococci . 819 250 345 498 921 Vincent’s Angina . 72 50 113 80 47 68 Dysentery . 14 56 46 5 3 3 Food Poisoning . 5 9 16 4 9 Typhoid (Widal) . 156 104 84 66 71 55 Typhoid (Urine and Faeces) . 82 73 47 5 14 47 Typhoid (Miscellaneous Water, Milk, etc.). 1 12 1 Typhus (Weil Felix) . 14 5 12 7 25 9 Para-Typhoid A and B . Glandular Fever (Paul & Bunnell) . 28 15 31 Brucella Abortus . 34 20 31 14 29 17 Gonorrhoea (Smears and Urine). 16,569 6,245 4 14,603 5,547 18 19,123 7,435 5 19,495 6,847 13,527 7,071 3 14,783 7,625 1 Gonorrhoea (Comp. Dev. Test) . Hydatid (Sputa, Smears) . Hydatid (Comp. Dev. Test) . 46 32 39 11 31 Syphilis (W.R.) .'.. 22,252 21,704 472 21,252 20,147 375 23,129 22,247 289 22,679 21,955 182 25,533 25,074 222 32,208 30,652 586 Syphilis (Kahn) . Syphilis (Spirochaetes). Leprosy . 730 533 162 384 292 80 Rat Leprosy . 2 2 16 3 1 Tuberculosis . 3,194 3,053 5 2,804 4 2,416 2,170 1,692 4 Tetanus . 5 1 Weils Disease . 1 Miscellaneous (General) . Spermatozoa . 1 Unclassified—No growth from pus, etc. 1,122 422 1,063 277 1,030 ■ 1,079 310 1,011 463 795 Vaccines, etc. 333 477 Cerebro Spinal Fluids for— Meningitis ... 207 266 183 32 5 9 Cell counts . Colloidal Gold Reaction . Protein (Globulin and total Protein) . Takata Ara Test . 102 Chlorides. Miseellanemis .](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31485376_0139.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
