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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
Tottenham 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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Table E.-(continued).
| Infants. | No. Children Examined | Mai-Nutrition | Verminous | Want of Cleanliness | Carious Teeth | Tonsils & Adenoids Requiring Treatment | Enlarged Glands | External Eve Disease | Defective Vision | Ear Disease | Defective Hearing- | Speech | Morbus Cordis j | Lung Disease | Tuberculosis | Infectious Diseases | Other Diseases | Total No. of Children with Defects other than Carious Teeth | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Head | Body | |||||||||||||||||||
| Woodlands Park | (Hoys) | 211 | 8 | - | - | 3 | 80 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 41 |
| „ „ | (Girls) | 188 | 5 | 2 | - | 1 | 72 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | 3 | 30 |
| Belmont Road | (Boys) | 65 | - | - | - | - | 15 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| „ „ | (Girls) | 73 | - | - | - | - | 17 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 11 |
| Earlsmead | (Boys) | 24 | - | - | - | _ | 5 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| „ „ | (Girls) | 22 | 1 | - | - | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | 7 | ||
| Bruce Grove | (Boys) | 68 | - | - | - | _ | •26 | 7 | 6 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 18 |
| „ „ | ((iirls) | 46 | - | - | _ | 21 | - 4 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 11 | |
| West Green | (Boys) | 96 | 2 | 2 | - | 6 | 31 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | - | 7 | 22 | |
| „ „ | (Girls) | 108 | 4 | 2 | - | •2 | 24 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 5 | •23 |
| Lancasterian | (Boys) | 41 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 1 | _ | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | - | 2 | 5 |
| „ „ | ((iirls) | 46 | 1 | - | - | _ | 14 | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | _ | _ | - | _ | 1 | - | - | 2 | 6 |
| Coleraine Park | (Boys) | 34 | 2 | - | - | I | 14 | 2 | •2 | - | - | 1 | _. | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | '2 : | 7 |
| „ „ | ((iirls) | 49 | 6 | - | - | 1 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | _ | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | _ | - ' | 1 | .7 |
| Page Green | (Boys) | 77 | 3 | 2 | - | 4 | 27 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - ' | 4 | 11 |
| „ „ | (Girls) | 47 | 3 | 3 | - | 3 | 9 | 3 | 4 | - | - | 1 | -. | - | - | 2 | 1 | - 1 | 3 | 8 |
| Parkhurst Road | (Boys) | 53 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 15 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | _ | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 10 |
| „ „ | ((iirls) | 50 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | _ | 3 | _ | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| Downhills | (Boys) | 83 | 6 | - | - | _ | 43 | 4 | 6 | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | _ | 5 | 16 |
| „ „ | ((iirls) | 86 | 10 | - | - | _ | 29 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 3 | - | 1 | 4 | 14 |
| Seven Sisters | (Boys) | 94 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | •28 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | •2 | 5 | _ | 1 | 6 | 24 |
| „ „ | ((iirls) | 83 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 31 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 4 | __ | • _ | 4 | 16 |
| Stamford Hill | (Boys) | 86 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | 20 | 5 | 6 | 4 | •2 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 19 |
| „ „ | ((iirls) | 63 | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | •20 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | _ | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 3 | 10 |
| Crowland Road | (Boys) | 38 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | _ | 2 | 6 | |
| „ „ | ((iirls) | •26 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 10 | ,2 | - | 1 | 1 | - i | _ | _ | 1 | 1 | - | - - | 2 | 6 |
| Down Lane | (Boys) | 26 | '2 | - | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | _ | - | _ | 2 | _ | _ | 1 | 4 |
| „ „ | ((iirls) | 28 | - . | 2 | - | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | •2 | 4 | ||||||||
| St. Katharine's | (Boys) | 25 | 2 | - | - | - | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -. | 1 | - | - | - - | .- | 5 | |
| „ „ | ((iirls) | 22 | 1 | - | -- | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | •2 | 5 | |||||||
| St. Paul's | (Boys) | 23 | 1 | - | .- | - | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 7 | |
| „ „ | ((iirls) | 32 | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | :- | _ | 4 |
| St. Ann's | (Boys) | 13 | 1 | - | - | - . | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | _ | 4 |
| „ „ | ((iirls) | 18 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Holy Trinity | (Boys) | 14 | 7 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| „ „ | ((iirls) | 13 | - | - | - | .- | 7 | 1 | - j | 3 | ||||||||||
| St. Francis de Sales | (Boys) ((iirls) | 16 18 | - | 1 2 | 2 | 2 7 | 6 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 2 | 3 •2 | ||
| St. Ignatius | (Boys) | 16 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
| „ „ | (Girls) | 23 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 8 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 5 |
| Totals | 2144 | 92 | 26 | 8 | 57 | 689 | 129 | 136 | 67 | 49 | 33 | 26 | 11 | 35 | 73 | 15 | 14 | 115 | 410 | |
| Percentages | - | 4-2 | 1*2 | •3 | 2'6 | 32 1 | 6 0 | 6'3 | 31 | 2\3 | 1'5 | 1'2 | 1'6 | 3 3 | "7 | '6 | 5'3 | 191 | ||