Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of Johannesburg.

Johannesburg (South Africa)

Date:: [1972]

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of Johannesburg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS A. FOR WHITE MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES From 7 .7.1972 Prospective Municipal Employees Found eligible for - Pension Fund membership . 796 Special membership of the Pension Fund . 608 Work only .. . 41 Found unfit for work 11 TOTAL . 1 456 Cases boarded . 8 Other examinations . 25 GRAND TOTAL . 1 489 B. FOR BLACK WORKSEEKERS 1972 1971 Workseekers examined . 156 835 168 035 Medically unfit for employment - Temporarily . 383 543 Permanently . 743 564 Food handlers examined . 391 246 Number of smallpox vaccinations 122 486 128 284 Cases of gonorrhoea found . 1 703 1 259 Cases of syphilis found . 1 748 1 784 * * *