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 Walthamstow]
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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 | By Private Practitioner or at Hospital, apartfrom the Authority's Scheme. | Otherwise. | Total. | ||
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
Errors of Refraction (including squint) | New 358 | 11 | 566 | ||
(Operations for squint should be recorded separately in the body of the School Medical Officer's Report) | Old 197 | ||||
Other Defect or Disease of the Eyes (excluding those recorded in Group I) | 22 | — | — | 22 | |
Total | 577 | 11 | 588 | ||
(i) Under the Authority's Scheme. | (ii) Otherwise | ||||
Number of children for whom spectacles were prescribed | 480 | 11 | |||
Number of children for whom spectacles were obtained | 467 | 11 |
Group III.—TREATMENT OF DEFECTS OF NOSE AND THROAT.
Number of Defects.
Received Operative Treatment. | Received other forms of Treatment. | Total number treated. | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under the Authority's Scheme, in Clinic or Hospital. | By Private Practitioner or Hospital, apart from the Authority's Scheme. | Total. | |||||||||||
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |||||||||
(i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | ||
5 | 1 | 105 | - | 4 | - | - | - | 9 | 1 | 105 | - | 108 | 223 |