Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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Rheumatism Supervisory Centre
Of the children under supervision, twenty made 30 attendances at Dr. I. M. Anderson's Clinic at the Prince of Wales's Hospital. Six of these were new cases, five girls and one boy, and in them the following diagnoses were established:-
Total | In Tottenham | In Other Areas | |
---|---|---|---|
Rheumatic Fever Streptococcal allergy | 4 | 1 | 3 |
(state) | 2 | 1 | 1 |
There were four removals during 1963 leaving 207 children on the register of the Supervisory Centre at the end of the year. These 207 have been classified as follows:-
Total | In Tottenham | in Other Areas | |
---|---|---|---|
Rheumatic Fever | 72 | 45 | 27 |
Rheumatic Carditis | 37 | 25 | 12 |
Rheumatic Carditis with Chorea | 4 | 4 | - |
Chorea alone | 6 | 5 | 1 |
Rheumatic Arthritis | 5 | 1 | 4 |
Congenital Cardiac Lesions | 54 | 34 | 20 |
Streptococcal Allergy (state) | 6 | 4 | 2 |
Other cases | 23 | 19 | 4 |
207 | 137 | 70 |
Males 97 Females 110
Ear, Nose and Throat Clinics
Mr. F. B. M. Clarke, Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat
Surgeon to the Hornsey E.N.T. Clinic, reports:-
"The work of the ear, nose and throat clinic has been carried
on during the year 1963 along similar lines to those of previous years.
Average attendances have been good and the majority of the patients
seen were those with abnormal and unhealthy conditions of the nose
and its normal functions, its various spaces and sinuses; rhinitis,
sinusitis, 'allergy', occasionally structural deformities, nasal obstruction,
mouth breathing, epistaxis, etc. These nasal abnormalities are
primary and usually the focal point from which many serious secondary
defects develop later in related regions - the eyes, ears, throat,
lungs, etc.
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