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Table: Table No. 55.—Corresponding to Table IV., appendix F. of the 1917 Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education.Return showing the nature and number of defects referred for treatment, the number of visits and medical and dental examinations made in connection therewith, and the extent to which remedial measures were carried out during 1919.

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Table No. 55.—Corresponding to Table IV., appendix F. of the 1917 Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education.

Return showing the nature and number of defects referred for treatment, the number of visits and medical and dental examinations made in connection therewith, and the extent to which remedial measures were carried out during 1919.

CONDITION.	No. of defects found for which treatment was considered necessary.			No. of visits made on account of these defects.	No. of Medical or Dental Examinations made on account of these defects.	No. of times attended by Clinic Nurse only on account of these defects.	No. of defects for which no report is available.	No. of defects not needing treatment.	No. of defects treated.						Total.	Results of Treatment.				Percenrtage of cefects treated	No. of defects not treated.			No. of defects under observation at end of year and carried forward to succeeding year.
									No. of defects treated.							Remedied.	Improved.	Unchanged	Under observation at end of year (result of treatment not known at end of vear.		No. of defects not treated.
									School Clinic.	Municipal Hospital	Home (under supervision of Council Staff).	Voluntary Hospital or other charitable Institution	Infirmary or Poor Law.	Private Practitioner or Dentist.							Removed from observa tion.	Still under observation at end of year.	Total.
	Brough forward from previou year.	†New.	Total.						School Clinic.	Municipal Hospital	Home (under supervision of Council Staff).	Voluntary Hospital or other charitable Institution	Infirmary or Poor Law.	Private Practitioner or Dentist.							Removed from observa tion.	Still under observation at end of year.	Total.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
Clothing—
Unsatisfactory	3	12	15	3/	6	0	0	0	1	0	14	0	⁰	0	15	14	0	0	1	100.0	c	0	0	I
Footgear—
Unsatisfactory	0			12	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	4		0	0	0	100.0	0	0	0	0
Cleanliness of Head—
Nits	20	349	369	1211	135	397	0	0	147	0	217	0	I	0	365	321	I	0	43	98.9	4	4	4	47
Pediculi	11	259	270	810	143	527	0	0	115	0	154	0	0	0	269	252	0	0	17	99.6	0	1	1	18
Other dirty conditions	1	37	38	95	10	4	0	0	2	0	36	0	0	0	38	37	0	0	1	100.0	0	0	0	I
Cleanliness of Body-
Dirty	0	11	11	48	1		0	0	1	0	10	0	0	0	11	10	0	0	1	100.0	0	0	0	1
Pediculi	1	E	1C	23	5	17	c	0	1	c	9	0	0	0	10	10	0	0	0	100.0	c	0	0	0
Fleabitten	0	1	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	100.0	0	0	0	0
Nutrition—
Below Normal	19	17	36	114	74		1	0	21	0	12	1	0	1	35	16	9	0	10	100.0	0	0	0	10
Bad	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Nose and Throat—
Enlarged Tonsils	80	217	297	572	544	0	0	10	114	21	10	30	0	7	182	125	3	4	50	63.4	30	75	105	125
Adenoids	10J	94	197	479	409	121	3	7	80	5	8	18	0	7	118	78	3	4	33	63.1	21	48	69	81
Enlarged Tonsils and Adenoids	89	217	306	805	818	19	1	9	81	43	12	45	0	3	184	118	6	0	60	62.2	14	98	112	158
Other conditions	37	275	312	648	508	59	1	3	139	5	81	9	0	58	292	241	7	1	43	94.8	2	14	16	57
Cervical or Neck Glands—
Enlarged	20	258	278	577	356	38	0	2	61	6	158	13	1	27	266	197	18	1	50	96.4	3	⁷	10	57
External Eye Disease—
Blepharitis	28	163	191	356	643	487	0	0	149	0	33	2	1	2	187	146	0	0	41	97.9	2	2	4	43
Conj unctivitis	24	124	148	241	584	785	0	0	123	1	14	5	0	3	146	112	0	0	34	98.6	2	0	2	34
Corneal Opacities	5	13	18	44	85	110	0	1	10	4	0	2	0	0	16	8	3	1	4	94.1	1	0	1	4
Other Disease	2	24	26	42	115	65	0	0	20	0	5	0	0	0	25	18	2	0	5	96.2	1	0	1	5
Ear Disease
Chronic Suppuration of Middle Ear	52	296	348	861	599	1,529	0	2	279	0	28	19	0	7	333	177	14	0	142	96.2	5	8	13	150
Chronic Catarrh of Middle Ear	1	15	16	55	55	0	0	0	9	0	1	0	0	5	15	13	1	0	1	93.7	1	0	1	1
Wax	3	44	47	85	144	66	0	0	45	0	2	0	0	0	47	32	7	0	8	100.0	0	0	0	8
Other Disease	11	85	96	227	139	105	0	4	48	0	24	4	2	4	82	56	8	0	18	89.1	8	2	10	20
Teeth—
Irregular	3	27	30	42	34	0	0	2	4	0	0	5	0	0	9	4	0	3	2	32.1	13	6	19	8
Less than 4 decayed	176	1,908	2,084	2,456	2,809	0	1	5	1,688	0	0	6	0	16	1,710	1,464	49	0	197	82.3	203	165	368	362
Four or more decayed	245	2,860	3,105	4,131	6,569	0	9	0	2,632	0	0	11	0	28	2,671	2,018	94	0	559	86.3	215	210	425	769
Sepsis	2	15	17	22	47	0	0	0	14	0	0	0	0	0	14	10	0	0	4	82.4	2	1	3	5
Defect not ascertained	57	92	149	280	65	0	2	0	25	0	0	4	0	3	32	7	0	0	25	21.8	36	79	115	104
Heart and Circulation—
Organic Disease	8	9	17	58	45	0	0	0	6	1	5	1	0	2	15	4	2	1	8	88.2	2	0	2	8
Functional Disease	2	12	14	46	19	0	0	0	3	0	2	2	0	2	9	6	0	0	3	64.3	4	1	5	4
Anaemia	15	62	77	230	316	0	0	0	38	1	28	0	0	1	68	30	2	0	36	88.3	8	1	9	37
Other defect	2	3	5	15	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	5	2	3	0	0	100.0	0	0	0	0
Lungs—
Chronic Bronchitis and Bronchial Catarrh	51	189	240	814	726	0	0	0	56	4	106	11	0	53	230	127	7	2	94	95.8	10	0	10	94
Tuberculosis	_	_	_	—	_	_	_	—	—	—	—	—	—	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	—
Tuberculosis Suspected	22	46	68	313	167	0	0	2	16	1	20	11	2	8	58	10	15	2	31	87.9	8	0	8	31
Other disease	13	41	54	*149	38	0	0	0	14	3	12	7	1	14	51	47	0	0	4	94.4	1	2	3	6
Nervous System—
Epilepsy	4	13	17	38	57	0	0	0	2	0	8	3	0	1	14	0	5	2	7	82.4	1	2	3	9
Chorea	18	44	62	245	111	0	0	0	4	4	13	21	0	9	51	29	4	0	18	82.3	3	8	11	26
Other disease	12	20	32	84	29	7	0	3	11	3	2	4	0	7	27	15	0	0	12	93.1	2	0	2	12
Skin—
Ringworm Body Head	97	207	304	887	1,165	41	2	4	221	0	18		9	14	270	233	1	1	35	90.6	11	17	28	52
Impetigo	145	1,068	1,213	2,890	2,171	5,622	0	1	748	2	390	13	1	46	1,200	1,059	3	0	138	99.0	5	7	12	145
Scabies	87	433	520	1,348	1,352	2,779	1	5	324	6	112	21	13	25	501	447	1	0	53	97.5	9	4	13	57
Other disease	37	413	450	1,022	930	1,702	1	1	263	4	124	14	1	29	435	377	1	1	56	97.1	8	5	13	61
Ricketts—
Slight Marked	3	4	7	41	11	0	0	0	4	0	0	3	0	0	7	1	1	0	5	100.0	0	0	0	5
Deformities—
Deformity present	14	23	37	128	68	0	0	1	6	2	5	15	0	0	28	2	10	1	15	77.8	6	2	8	17
Tuberculosis
(Non-Pulmonary)—
*Glandular
†Bones or Joints
‡Other form
Suspected—Glandular	5	6	11	56	18	0	0	0	4	0	1	1	0	2	8	0	2	1	5	72.7	1	2	3	7
„ Bones and joints	5	8	13	24	20	0	0	1	9	0	0	3	0	0	12	0	2	2	8	100.0	0	0	0	8
„ Other forms	2	2	4	30	18	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	4	100.0	0	0	0	4
Speech—
Defective Articulation	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	0	1	0
Squint-
Squint present	23	34	57	97	130	0	0	3	44	1	0	1	0	0	46	12	22	5	7	85.2	3	5	8	12
Vision-
Defect not ascertained	35	8	43	87	16	0	0	0	14	0	0	2	0	1	17	10	1			39.5	5	21	26	23
One eye normal	26	54	80	92	237	0	2	0	68	0	0	1	0	1	70	34	17	10		95.9	1	2	3	11
Both eyes 6/6	15	136	151	219	359	0	2	29	112	0	0	0	0	2	114	64	18	18	14	95.0	2	4	6	18
6/9	10	47	57	58	136	0	0	1	47	0	0	0	0	0	47	26	6	5	10	83.9	3	6	9	16
One eye 6/9 other 6/12 or less	25	63	88	108	273	9	1	0	74	0	2	1	0	1	78	47	19		10	89.7	6	3		13
Both eyes 6/12 or less	61	189	250	278	796	114	0	0	234	0	0	0	0	1	235	118	67	12	38	94.0	10	5	15	43
Spectacles broken	33	264	297	214	725	10	0	2	292	0	0	0	0	1	293	272	1	0	20	99.3	1	1	2	21
„ lost	8	39	47	38	122	0	0	0	44	0	0	0	0	1	45	45	0	0	0	95.8	1	1	2	1
Debility	123	333	456	1,483	835	2	0	0	136	2	225	29	2	42	436	250	50	0	136	95.6	9	11	20	147
Miscellaneous	134	3,810	3,944	7,662	5,810	3,876	13	194	1,416	78	1,729	120	3	332	3,678	3,191	72	5	410	98.4	36	23	59	433
Grand Totals	2,028	15,007	17,035	33,027	31,598	18,491	40	297	10,021	197	3,637	468	37	769	15,129	11,947	557	8£	2,537	90.6	716	853	1,569	3,390

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Mental Condition—Dull or Backward and Mentally Defective (all grades)—
No. of Cases examined during 1919 55 Found on examination to be dull or backward 30
Found on examination to be mentally defective 25
Re-examinations in respect of Defective Vision other than Lost and Broken Spectacles—
No. of Visits 1,265 No. of Medical Examinations .1,788
Re-examination in respect of Dental Defects—
No. of Visits 529 No. of Dental Examinations 392
† The return should show comprehensively all defects found during the year, from whatever source derived, which required treatment.
* 6 Cases were notified by the Assistant School Medical Officers during the year and were dealt with as notifiable infectious diseases,
† 1 Case was „ „ „ „ was „ - a notifiable infectious disease,
‡ 2 Cases were „ „ „ „ were „ notifiable infectious diseases.

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