Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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Table IV.
RETURN OF DEFECTS TREATED DURING THE
YEAR 1933.
TREATMENT TABLE.
Disease or Defect. | Number of Defects treated, or under treatment during the year. | ||
---|---|---|---|
Under the Authority's Scheme. | Otherwise. | Total. | |
Skin— Ringworm—Scalp (Show separately in brackets the number which were treated by X-ray | 10 (10) | — | 10 (10) |
Ringworm—Body | 53 | 2 | 55 |
Scabies | 19 | — | 19 |
Impetigo | 501 | 1 | 502 |
Other skin diseases | 2725 | 31 | 2756 |
Minor Eye Defects (external and other, but excluding cases falling in Group II.) | 448 | 12 | 460 |
Minor Ear Defects | 686 | 25 | 711 |
Miscellaneous | 4672 | 295 | 4967 |
Total | 9114 | 366 | 9480 |
(excluding Minor Eye Defects treated as Minor Ailments—Group I.).
Defect or Disease. | Number of Defects dealt with. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Under the Authority's Scheme. | By Private Practitioner or at Hospital, apart from the Authority's Scheme. | Otherwise. | Total. | |
Errors of Refraction (including Squint) | 636 | — | — | 636 |
Other Defect or Disease of the Eyes (excluding those recorded in Group I) | 192 | — | — | 192 |
Total | 828 | — | — | 828 |
Number of children for whom spectacles were prescribed:—
(i) Under the Authority's Scheme 585
(ii) Otherwise —
Number of children for whom spectacles were obtained:—
(i) Under the Authority's Scheme 490
(ii) Otherwise —