[Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow.

Glasgow (Scotland)

Date:: 1959

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Credit: [Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Found on image 38 / 410 (page 36)… Disease— Incidence, 1938-1959 ... ... ... ... ••• 173 Congenital Syphilis, etc. ... ... ... ... 175 Venereal Disease in Seamen, etc. ... ... ... 176 Defaulters ... ... ... ... ••• 177 VII. Mental Services— Boarded-out Patients ... ... ... ••• ••• 179 Lunacy Certification ... ... ... ... ... IS 1 Certificatio...
Found on image 179 / 410 (page 177)…onic Venereal Disease 41 59 114 Other Diseases, including Soft Sore, Septic Balanitis, etc. ... 778 129 941 Non-Venereal 1,668 341 2,016 Follow-up of Defaulters— With the rapid treatment of both acute syphilis and acute gonorrhoea, a fairly high proportion of the patients default before completing treatment. E...
Found on image 179 / 410 (page 177)…nd acute gonorrhoea, a fairly high proportion of the patients default before completing treatment. Efforts have been made to obtain the attendance of defaulters by follow-up letters and by personal visits of the health visitors in the cases of females and the senior attendants in the case of males. During the...
Found on image 180 / 410 (page 178)…e Unit most patients have received sufficient treatment to reduce the danger of spread of infection, Contact Tracing.—The contact tracing, as well as defaulter follow- up work, is carried out by the staff of the male ad hoc centres in respect of males and by the health visitors attached to the female centres...
Found on image 272 / 410 (page 270)…or 74-00 per cent, last year. This year 10 (6-31 per cent.) of the samples failed both in count and coliform compared with 15 of 200 or 7-5 per cent. Defaulters were visited and their methods checked and advice given. Of the 163 informal samples taken, 123 were subjected to both chemical and bacteriological e...
Found on image 322 / 410 (page 320)…ceedings against some 64 families in one of the housing schemes for failing to cleanse the common close or stairs leading to the houses. As usual the defaulters in this case were a small minority of the tenants but their actions or failure to act affects every one of the neighbours who may be living in the pr...
Found on image 330 / 410 (page 328)…tions were issued to the authors of nuisances in terms of the statutes involved. Failure to comply necessitated the issue of 130 statutory notices to defaulters. Court action was taken in 12 instances, 11 of which were successful. The exception was a case involving the absence of a sanitary convenience in a sh...
Found on image 337 / 410 (page 335)…hey were of a minor character and a verbal warning was all that was necessary to put matters right. It was, however, necessary to issue 20 notices to defaulters. The number of factories at present on the register can be seen in the following table. The large number of factories removed during the year is by re...

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Civil Defence Department a transhailer. Additional loud-speaker vans were hired during the course of the campaign. Special mention should be made of the co-operation received from the Education Department in the arrangements made for the vaccinations at Further Education and Day Release Classes and the encouragement given by Headmasters, Principals and their staff. Some 20,616 persons received their first injections during the period Monday, 2nd November, to Saturday, 12th December, although most of the work was carried out during the month of November. The following table shows the distribution of the vaccinations :— No. of First Percentage Injections of Total Central Clinic, 20 Cochrane Street 2,459 11-9 Peripheral Clinics ... 1,792 8-7 V 24-3 Mobile Clinic 756 3-7 J Canteens at Hillington and Queenslie Estates 225 M Dance Halls and Ice Rink 5,599 27-2 Commercial and Industrial Undertakings 4,328 21-0 Corporation Further Education Centres... 4,689 22-7 Other Further Education Centres 768 3-7 20,616 100-0 Of the 756 who attended the mobile clinic, 390 were vaccinated at Wellington Street and 366 at Queen Street. The largest single groups were vaccinated at the ballrooms and at the Ice Rink as follows :— Albert Ballroom 276 Berkeley Ballroom ... 295 Dennistoun Ballroom 2,069 Locarno Ballroom 2,030 Majestic Ballroom ... 227 Ice Rink 702 5,599 The campaign received an immense amount of support and much encouragement was given to adolescents and young persons to come forward for vaccination. For the help received we are most grateful. The campaign planned to end in January of 1960 involved the spending of many evenings in November and December by the medical, nursing and clerical staffs. The final vaccination state at 31st December was— Vaccinated with Two Injections Per Cent, of Third Injections Age in Years Number Estimated Population Given Under 5... 58,847 65-4 21,886 5—14 149,169 84-5 90,832 15—19 35,196 45-4 8,358 20—24 15,968 20-4 1,232 25 years and over or not stated 7,168 1,222 266,348 123,530