[Report 1935] / Medical Officer of Health, Edinburgh City.

  • Edinburgh (Scotland). City Council.
Date:
1935
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    Table 32.—CURATIVE CLINICS. Centre. Number of Clinics held. Attendances. Old Cases. New Cases. Total. *Cowgate ..••••• 98 3,156 282 3,428 Gorgie ..•••••• 47 532 95 627 *Torphichen Street ...... 51 649 336 985 High Street ..••••• 42 1,293 59 1,352 * Marshall Street ...... 47 1,137 121 1,258 Portobello ....... 98 2,920 255 3,175 Leith 139 5,256 985 6,24. * Elsie Inglia Memorial Hospital ... 50 1,048 667 1,715 Windsor Street ...... 44 455 67 522 Niddrie ....... 52 789 238 1.027 Totals .... Figures for 1934 ...... 668 17,235 3,105 20,340 683 14.732 3,284 18,016 * These Dispensaries are subsidised by the Corporation, the clinics being conducted by doctors on the regular staffs of the Dispensaries. Table 33—ULTRA VIOLET RAY CLINICS. Centre. Number of Cases. Number of Exposures given. M.V. Lamp. C.A. Lamp. Leith Pleasance ....*«• 77 97 1,268 519 1,753 Totals .... 174 1,787 1,753 Table 34.—Analysts of New Cases seen at RHEUMATIC CLINIC. 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 New Cases— Rheumatic . .... 107 59 42 50 43 Non-Rheumatic .... 37 16 23 15 7 Total .... 144 75 65 65 50 * Prodromal Symptoms 24 15 10 6 14 Carditis only ..... 42 19 15 14 ii Chorea only ..... 20 12 9 16 6 Carditis with Chorea .... 8 5 6 9 12 tArthritis ...... 13 8 2 5 ... * This includes growing pains and arthritis associated with malnutrition and rheumatic sore throat, t Not always present at time of examination.