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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Willesden 1915

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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Table No. 56—(continued).

Table:

CONDITIONS.No. of defects found for which treatment was considered necessary.No. of visits made on account of these defects.No. of Medical Examinations made on account of these defects.No. of defects for which no report is available.No. of defects treated.Results of Treatment.Percentage of defects treated.No. of defects not treated.Total No. of defects under observation at end of year and carried forward to succeeding year.
Carried forward from previous year.New.Total.School Clinic.Home (i.e., under supervision of Medical staff of Authority).Voluntary Hospital or other charitable Institution.Infirmary or Poor Law.Private Practitioner.Total.Remedied.Improved.Unchanged.Under observation at end of year (result of treatment not known at end of year).Removed from observation.Still under observation at end of year.Total.
Lungs-
Chronic Bronchitis and Bronchial Catarrh3576016910002093286045906100.000006
*Tuberculosis...............................................................
Tuberculosis Suspected728351393810013108314203488.573034
Other Disease3161943600350111915211100.000001
Nervous System
Epilepsy1672140013004220057.143030
Chorea1025351592110327041412161597.140005
Other Disease4192395210021104172101473.913367
Skin-
Ringworm—Body12231643815351249102935421048416334647294.972101282
Ringworm—Head
Impetigo1655759124515132447069048591S451403299.6600032
Scabies8728032614100†411512180691010100.0000010
Other Disease1716818558514701410022234172136207992.97130139
Ricketts—
Slight12318400030030300100.000000
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*Nine cases were notified by Assistant Medical Officers during the year, and were dealt with as notifiable infectious diseases
†One of these was cleansed at the Willesden Isolation Hospital.