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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
Ilford 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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Medical Treatment.
(a) Minor Ailments Clinics.— The attendances during 1958 were as
follows:—
Newbury Hall Mayesbrook
Number of individual children seen 379 450
Number of attendances of children 660 781
Number of exclusion certificates granted 2 12
Number of certificates of fitness to attend
school granted 3 14
Owing to the falling off of numbers attending the minor ailment clinics
it was decided to close one of the two weekly sessions hitherto operating
at both the Mayesbrook and Newbury Hall Clinics.
So that facilities for consulting a doctor, on the days previously set
aside as purely clinic sessions, remained, the clinic was combined with the
immunisation clinic —one at Mayesbrook and the other at the Public Health
Offices.
This change was effected from 1st December, 1958, and has worked
very well.
The following table shows the conditions dealt with at both the Clinics during the year:—
| Subnormal Nutrition | 272 |
| Debility | 63 |
| Uncleanliness:- | |
| Head | 19 |
| Body | — |
| Skin:— | |
| Ringworm:— | |
| Head | — |
| Body | — |
| Scabies | — |
| Impetigo | 4 |
| Dermatitis | — |
| Urticaria | — |
| Furunculosis | 4 |
| Eczema | 3 |
| Athletes Foot | 6 |
| Warts | 116 |
| Other Skin Diseases (Non-Tuberculosis) | 34 |
| Eye:— | |
| Blepharitis | 6 |
| Conjunctivitis | 5 |
| Defective Vision (excluding Squint) | 92 |
| Squint | 10 |
| Other conditions | 57 |
| Ear:— | |
| Defective Hearing | 6 |
| Otitis Media | 3 |
| Other Ear Diseases | 7 |