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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 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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CERTAIN STATISTICAL DATA.
| No. of Public Elementary Schools at December, 1917 | 33 | ||
| No. of School Departments at December, 1917 | 77 | ||
| No. of Children on School Rolls at December, 1917 | 24,312 | ||
| Total No. of Children medically inspected | 3,398 | ||
| Total No. of Defects of every description "followed up" during 1917 | 6,463 | ||
| Total No. of Defects of every description for which treatment was obtained during 1917 | 5,837 | ||
| Maximum daily | Average daily | Total | |
| Attendances at Ringworm Clinic | 30 | 19 | 854 |
| Attendances at Eye Clinic | 59 | 29 | 5,669 |
| Attendances at Inspection Clinic (Municipal Offices) | 59 | 37 | 1,632 |
| Attendances at Inspection Clinic (Leopold Road) | 67 | 34 | 1,494 |
| Total | — | — | 9,649 |
| No. of Physically Defective Schools 1 | |||
| No. of Mentally Defective Schools 2 (1 of which was closed temporarily on 25/7/17) | |||
| No. of Children attending Special Schools :— | In Willesden | Outside Willesden | Total |
| Blind and partially blind | 0 | 18 | 18 |
| Deaf . | 0 | 22 | 22 |
| Mentally defective | 103* | 5† | 108 |
| Epileptic | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| Physically defective | 73 | 8 | 81 |
| Total. | 178 | 61 | 239 |
*3 are partially blind and receiving special education for the blind.
† 1 is also deaf.