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Croydon 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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APPENDIX E
TREATMENT
The Work of the School Clinics
SUMMARY OF ATTENDANCES
1963
1962
Increase or
decrease
Minor Ailments and Verruca Clinics
4, 932
5, 737
805
Inspection Clinic
807
1, 477
670
Dental Clinics
18,409
19, 259
850
Remedial Exercises Clinic
5, 217
5. 223
6
Enuresis Clinic
706
732
26
Audiology Clinic
154
189
35
30,225
32, 617
- 2,392
MINOR AILMENTS CLINICS
Clinic
De fects
At tendances
Lodge Road
321
2. 070
Ashburton School
87
730
Duppas School
209
636
Rockmount School
183
930
Addington
82
566
Complaint
1963
1962
Cases
Attendances
Average
No. of
At ten'
Cases
At tendances
Average
No. of
Attendances
per case
Ringworm
Scabies 1 2 20
Impetigo 25 4.2 4 14 3^5
Other Skin Diseases io 27 2.7 15 40 2.7
Otorrhoea and other
Ear Defects 15 43 2.9 73 111 1.5
External Eye
Disease 35 70 2.0 59 126 2.1
Miscellaneous
(including Verruca) 716 4,767 6.7 1,231 5,444 4.4
782 4,932 6.3 1,383 5,737 4.2