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 Tottenham]
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TABLE E. SHOWING THE CONDITIONS FOUND ON EXAMINATION OF THE CHILDREN ATTENDING THE VARIOUS SCHOOLS.
Boys. | No. Children Examined. | Mai-Nutrition. | Verminous. | Want of Cleanliness. | Carious Teeth. | Tonsils & Adenoids requiring Treatment. | Defective Speech. | Enlarged Glands. | External Eye Disease. | Defective Vision. | Ear Disease. | Defective Hearing. | Morbus Cordis. | Lung Disease. | Tuberculosis. | Infectious Diseases. | Other Diseases. | Total No. of Children with Defects other than Carious Teeth. | |
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Head. | Body. | ||||||||||||||||||
Woodlands Park | 77 | 1 | - | - | - | 27 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 5 | 15 |
Belmont Rd. (Senior) | 66 | - | -- | - | - | 31 | - | 2 | 3 | 9 | 2 | - | i | - | - | - | 3 | 12 | |
Do. (Junior) | 8 | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | .- | 3 |
Earlsmead | 46 | - | - | - | - | 19 | - | - | - | - | 7 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 11 |
Bruce Grove | 82 | 2 | - | - | - | 25 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 13 | - | - | o | 1 | - | - | 7 | 21 |
AVest Green | 65 | 2 | - | - | - | 28 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 10 |
Lancasterian | 16 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 43 | 3 | - | - | - | 17 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 26 |
Coleraine Park | 166 | 1 | - | - | - | 22 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 14 |
Page Green | 55 | 2 | - | - | - | 22 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 14 |
Parkhurst Road | 23 | - | - | - | - | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
Downhills | 10 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 38 | 3 | 3 | - | 1 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 9 | 23 |
Seven Sisters | 160 | 2 | - | - | - | 30 | 1 | 3 | - | 2 | 9 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 12 |
Stamford Hill | 91 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 39 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 10 | 20 |
Down Lane | 44 | 4 | - | - | 3 | 16 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 12 |
Crowland Road | 56 | - | - | - | - | 19 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 12 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 3 | 16 |
Coombes Croft | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
St. Ann's | 43 | - | - | - | - | 16 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 7 | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 4 | 13 |
All Hallows | 35 | - | - | - | - | 18 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 10 |
St. Ignatius | 21 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 13 | 1 | - | 3 | - | 2 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 4 |
St. Francis de Sales | 13 | - | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | |
Deaf | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
Totals | 1080 | 25 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 430 | 29 | 18 | 15 | 21 | 152 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 66 | 245 |
Percentages | 2. 3 | .2 | .2 | 1.4 | 39.8 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 14.0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | .4 | .2 | .09 | 6.1 | 22.6 |