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Croydon 1919
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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SCHOOL TREATMENT CENTRE
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SPINAL REMEDIAL WORK.
TREATMENT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Total number of new cases 1060
Total number of attendances 4926
The Centre is as heretofore open daily for the treatment of minor
ailments. One of the medical staff is present on two mornings each
week and a nurse every morning to carry out the treatment advised.
In the school year the new cases averaged 26.5 per week.
RINGWORM.
Ringworm in school children has been treated at the School
Treatment Centre, and also by Dr. Critchley when X-ray treatment
was advised and accepted.
TABLE E. xiii.
| Totals. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Total No. of children treated | Scalp | 268 | |
| Body | 44 | ||
| 312 | |||
| No. of attendances | Scalp | 1569 | |
| Body | 56 | ||
| 1625 | |||
| No. of cases X-rayed | 94 | ||
| Total attendances for X-ray treatment | 188 | ||
| No. of cases treated by Drugs | Scalp | 174 | |
| Body | 44 | ||
| - | 218 |
SPECIAL EXAMINATION OF CHILDREN AT THE
SCHOOL TREATMENT CENTRE.
Number of Children who have attended at the request of the Education Committee's officers or of teachers or parents and who were found on examination to be suffering from the following diseases, viz. :—
| Diseases of Lungs | 78 | ||
| ,, Heart | 15 | ||
| ,, Ear, Throat and Nose | 223 | ||
| „ Skin (Scabies 76, Impetigo 129) | 205 | ||
| Ringworm— Scalp | 173 | ||
| Body | 33 | ||
| 206 | |||
| * Mentally Defective Children | 6 | ||
| Diseases of Nervous System | 35 | ||
| Spinal Affection | 10 | ||
| Eye Diseases or Defects | J7 | ||
| Glands | 37 | ||
| Rheumatism | 16 | ||
| Debility | 29 | ||
| Anaemia | 14 | ||
| Various | 162 | ||
| Infectious Diseases- | 1 Chicken Pox 1 | 7 | |
| 2 Diphtheria | |||
| 4 Scarlet Fever | |||
| 1060 | |||
* This is exclusive of children examined in accordance with ihe
requirements of the Mental Deficiency Act.