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 Ilford]
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TABLE IV.—Treatment of Defects of Children during 1915.
Condition. | No. of defects for which Treatment was considered necessary. | No. of defects for which no report is available. | No. of defects treated. | Results of Treatment. | No. of defects not treated. | Per centage of defects treated. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
From previous Year. | New. | Total. | Remedied. | Improved. | Unchanged. | |||||
Clothing | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 3 | … | … | 2 | 50.0 |
Footgear | … | 18 | 18 | 2 | 10 | 7 | … | 3 | 6 | 55.6 |
Cleanliness of Body | … | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | … | … | 1 | 1 | 33.3 |
Nutrition ... . | 1 | 1 | 2 | … | 1 | 1 | … | … | 1 | 50.0 |
Nose and Throat | 23 | 52 | 75 | 6 | 41 | 6 | 4 | 31 | 28 | 54.7 |
External Eye Disease | … | 4 | 4 | … | 2 | … | 1 | 1 | 2 | 50.0 |
Ear Disease | … | 13 | 13 | 1 | 9 | … | 3 | 6 | 3 | 69.7 |
Teeth | 2 | 13 | 15 | 3 | 10 | 10 | … | … | 2 | 66.7 |
Heart and Circulation | 2 | 34 | 36 | 6 | 19 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 52.8 |
Lungs | 1 | 39 | 40 | 1 | 28 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 70.0 |
Nervous System | … | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | … | 1 | 1 | … | 66.7 |
Skin | 2 | 18 | 20 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 55.0 |
Rickets | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … |
Deformities | 1 | 10 | 11 | … | 4 | … | 2 | 2 | 7 | 36.4 |
Tuberculosis,Non-Pulmonary | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … |
Speech | … | 2 | 2 | 1 | … | … | … | … | 1 | … |
Mental Condition | … | … | … | … | …… | … | … | … | … | … |
Vision and Squint | 109 | 420 | 529 | 6 | 125 | 104 | … | 21 | … | … |
Hearing | 18 | 76 | 94 | 8 | 61 | 16 | 17 | 28 | 25 | 64.9 |
Miscellaneous | 4 | 15 | 19 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 57.9 |
Total | 164 | 726 | 890 | 39 | 338 | 175 | 48 | 115 | 115 | 38.0 |