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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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T able N o. 41 —(continued).
| 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 not needing treatment. | No. 01 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. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brought 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 01 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 Catarrh | 8 | 87 | 95 | 239 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 14 | 2 | 34 | 91 | 60 | 26 | 0 | 5 | 9579 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| * Tuberculosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tuberculosis Suspected | 7 | 22 | 29 | 115 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | l6 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 89.66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Other Disease | 4 | 24 | 28 | 104 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 17 | 28 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 100.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Nervous System- | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Epilepsy | 0 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Chorea | 10 | 25 | 35 | 206 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23 | 1 | 7 | 33 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 94.29 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | |
| Other Disease | 2 | 16 | 18 | 63 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 94.44 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Skin- | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ringworm—Body | 56 | 261 | 317 | 835 | 647 | 2 | 2 | 182 | 65 | 26 | 0 | 29 | 302 | 248 | 4 | 3 | 47 | 95'27 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 58 |
| Ringworm—Head | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Impetigo | 35 | 790 | 825 | 3231 | 319 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 620 | 77 | 2 | 90 | 796 | 713 | 28 | 0 | 55 | 9648 | 0 | 26 | 26 | 81 |
| Scabies | 39 | 393 | 432 | 2325 | 374 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 243 | 92 | 77 | 420 | 550 | 12 | 2 | 56 | 97-22 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 66 | |
| Other Disease . | 17 | 370 | 387 | 1043 | 85 | 14 | 18 | 4 | 236 | 31 | 0 | 72 | 343 | 290 | 41 | 3 | 9 | 88 63 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 20 |
| Rieketts— | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Slight | 0 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 42186 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
| Marked . | ||||||||||||||||||||||
* Thiiteen cases were notified by the Assistant School Medical Officers during the year, and were dealt with as notifiable infectious d;seases.
X The remaining it appearing as carried forward in 1916 are dealt with in 1917 among children under 5 years of age.