[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Huntingdon U.D.C. / Borough.

  • Huntingdon (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1958
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Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Huntingdon U.D.C. / Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Clinic Patients seen When held Where held Chest All ages Every Thursday 10 a.m. - 12 noon County Hospital, Huntingdon. Venereal All cases Mondays 3-7 p.m. Addenbrooke f s Diseases Wednesdays 4 - 6.30 p.m. Hospital, Cambridge Males Females Orthopaedic Mondays 5.30 - 7 p.m. Wednesdays 5.30 - 7 P.m. Tuesdays 10.30 a.m. - 12 Thursdays 5.30 - 7 P.m. Out-Patients Dept., Memorial Hospital,' Peterborough. no on Pre-school and Every Tuesday 10 a.m. ■ - Old Grammar School, Schoolchildren 12 noon (Surgeons by appointment) Huntingdon. (iii)The following service is provided under the Supplementary Opthalmic Scheme of the National Health Service:- Clinic Patients seen When held Where held Opthalmic Pre-school and 1st and 3rd Fridays Old Grammar School, Schoolchildren in month Huntingdon. 10 a.m. - 12 noon 2-4 p.m. Medical, Surgical, Orthopaedic, Paediatric, Skin, Obstetrical, Gynaecological and Dental Out-Patient Clinics are held at Huntingdon County Hospital and Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, to which General Practitioners can refer their patients for specialist investigation. (e)) Hospital Services. Fever - Cases of infectious disease requiring hospital treatment are admitted to Isolation Hospitals at Cambridge, Peterborough or Ely. General Hospital Services are provided by the County Hospital, Huntingdon, and Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. Maternity Cases are admitted to Primrose Lane Maternity Hospital? Huntingdon, or, to Mill Road Hospital, Cambridge. TUBERCULOSIS Total number on Register at 31st December, 1938 - •' 38 Pulmonary - 33 Non-Pulmonary - 3 New cases - Diagnosed New Cases - Transfers Age Periods Respiratory Non-Resp: Respiratory Non-Resp: M F M F M F , M F 0 1 5 10 1i3 20 23 2 33 43 1 35 65 & upwards TOTALS 3 131 No action was found to be necessary under the Public Health (preven- tion of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1952, in connection with persons suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis employed in the milk trade, or under section 172 of the Public Health Act, 1936, which deals with the compulsory removal to hospital of persons suffering from tuberculcsi