[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough].

  • Hampstead (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1952]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    11 The detailed result of the visit is as follows:- [####] Males. Females. Total.[/####] No. of adults attending 592 437 1,029 No. of school children and staff attending 346 686 1,032 No. recalled for further X-ray (large film) 14 11 25 Analysis of large films. No further action 11 6 17 Further medical advice recommended 2 5 7 To attend for re-check at later date 1 - 1 It will be seen that out of the total of 2,061 persons who attended for X-ray, 7 were found to require further medical advice, i.e., 0·34 per cent., and one was advised to attend later for a re-check. In December the Unit paid a two week visit to the Main Restaurant, Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, and a letter was sent to some seventy factories and institutions in the Borough informing them of the opportu nity for their staff to be X-rayed. The facilities were also available to a number of other Boroughs and no summary of attendances and results in respect of Hampstead people is available in respect of this survey. FOOD POISONING. During the year we received 23 notifications of cases of food poisoning. Many of these were isolated cases but in three instances there was an outbreak affecting a number of individuals. One of these was associated with the purchase of duck eggs infected with the germs of dysentery. The source of infection was actually traced to the farm at which the ducks were kept and even to individual ducks. In another case an outbreak was associated with a school and in the third with a hostel. In all cases appropriate action terminated the outbreak. BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS. (Infectious Diseases.) The record of examinations carried out during the year by the Central Public Health Laboratory, Colindale, is as follows:- [####]Throat/Nose Swabs.[/####] Diphtheria Bacilli found Nil Hæmolytic Streptococci found 23 Vincent's Angina organisms found 3 Negative 115 Fæces. Shigella found 52 Salmonella found 19 Negative 134 Sputum. T.B. found 2 Other organisms found 3 Negative 13 Pertussis. Negative 21 (6003) a 4