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St Pancras 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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55
SCHOOLS.
The medical inspection of children in Elementary Schools in St. Pancras
is carried out by the London County Council, independently of the Borough Council. The
County Medical Officer has kindly furnished me with particulars of medical inspections of
schojl children in St. Pancras during 1928. They are classified in the following Tables : —
Routine Medical Examination of Elementary School Children in Sr. Pancras, 1928.
| Defect . | Boys. | Girls. | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entrants. | Age 8. | Age 12. | Age 14. | Entrants. | Age 8. | Age 12. | Age 14. | |||||||||
| Number examined | 1546 | 1613 | 1278 | 128 | 1406 | 1653 | 1201 | 1288 | ||||||||
| Cases | * | Cases. | * | Cases | * | Cases | * | Cases | * | Cases | * | Cases. | * | Cases | . * | |
| Malnutrition | 17 | 17 | 19 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 13 | 19 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Skin disease | 20 | 15 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| Defective teeth | - | 409 | - | 347 | - | 191 | - | 198 | - | 431 | - | 359 | - | 206 | - | 217 |
| Enlarged tonsils | 110 | 39 | 92 | 33 | 51 | 13 | 54 | 13 | 127 | 49 | 128 | 38 | 68 | 23 | 46 | 17 |
| Adenoids | 57 | 32 | 20 | 11 | 5 | 4 | - | - | 31 | 13 | 23 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Tonsils & adenoids | 208 | 125 | 64 | 37 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 163 | 93 | 60 | 35 | 28 | 12 | 12 | 9 |
| Other nose and throat | 30 | 19 | 15 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Enlarged glands | 144 | 3 | 102 | 4 | 60 | - | 33 | - | 110 | 2 | 71 | 2 | 39 | 2 | 18 | - |
| Eye.disease | 48 | 33 | 28 | 21 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 37 | 21 | 24 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Defective vision. | - | - | - | 177 | - | 150 | - | 129 | - | - | - | 189 | - | 153 | - | 138 |
| Otorrhœa | 16 | 8 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Other ear discharge | 12 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| Defective hearing | 8 | 8 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| Speech defects | 7 | - | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Heart defects | 23 | 2 | 34 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 34 | 6 | 39 | 5 | 22 | 2 |
| Anæmia | 29 | 13 | 40 | 19 | 23 | 15 | 19 | 11 | 23 | 14 | 40 | 27 | 29 | 13 | 29 | 17 |
| Lung defects | 64 | 29 | 33 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 44 | 15 | 28 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 3 |
| Nervous system | 11 | 2 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| Phthisis | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - |
| Other T.B. disease | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Rickets | 13 | 5 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 15 | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Spinal deformities | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 1 | - | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Other deformities | 7 | 1 | 29 | 17 | 21 | 11 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 30 | 19 | 23 | 17 |
| Other defects | 41 | 27 | 39 | 24 | 16 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 49 | 30 | 60 | 34 | 34 | 19 | 29 | 14 |
| Number of children noted for treatment | 689 | 643 | 389 | 365 | 613 | 662 | 432 | 403 | ||||||||
Note.—Defects, however slight, are included under "Cases." Those severe enough to require treatment are shown under*,