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 East Ham]
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Table IV.—continued.
Group II.—Defective Vision and Squint (excluding Minor Eye Defects treated as Minor Ailments—Group I.).
Defect or Disease. | No. of Defects dealt with. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under the Authority's Scheme. | Submitted to refraction by private practitioner or at hospital, apart from the Authority's Scheme. | Otherwise. | Total. | |||||
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | ||||
B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | |
Errors of Refraction (including Squint) | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 2 |
Other Defect or Disease of the Eyes (excluding those recorded in Group I.). | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Total | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 2 |
Total number of children for whom spectacles
were prescribed—
B. G.
(a) Under the Authority's Scheme ... — 1
(b) Otherwise — 1
Total number of children who obtained or
received spectacles—
(c) Under the Authority's Scheme — —
(d.) Otherwise — —
Group III.—Treatment of Defects of Nose and Throat.
NUMBER OF DEFECTS.
Received Operative Treatment. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under the Authority's Scheme, in Clinic or Hospital. | By Private Practitioner or Hospital, apart from the Authority's Scheme. | Total. | |||||||||||||||||||||
(1) | (2) | (3) | |||||||||||||||||||||
B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. |
(i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | ||||||||||||
1 | — | — | — | 1 | 5 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 5 | — | — |
(i) Tonsils only. (ii) Adenoids only. (iii) Tonsils and Adenoids.
(iv) Other defects of the nose and throat.