London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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TABLE IV.—
| (1) Number of Children who were: — | ||||||
| Aged : | ||||||
| Routine Age Groups | 5 | 1,894 | Total. | 15,455 | ||
| 6 | 2,164 | |||||
| 7 | 2,434 | |||||
| 8 | 2,195 | |||||
| 9 | 1,938 | |||||
| 10 | 2,096 | |||||
| 11 | 2,030 | |||||
| 12 | 557 | |||||
| 13 | 115 | |||||
| 14 | 32 | |||||
| Specials | 2,358 | |||||
| Grand Total | 17,813 | |||||
| (b) Found to require treatment | 11,811 | |||||
| 5,784 | ||||||
| 2,003 | ||||||
| (2) Half-days devoted to: | Inspection 79 | Total | 810 | |||
| Treatment 731 | ||||||
| (3) Attendances made by children for treatment | 7 465 | |||||
| (4) Fillings: | Permanent Teeth 1,254 | Total | 1,711 | |||
| Temporary Teeth 457 | ||||||
| (5) Extractions: | Permanent Teeth 1,226 | Total | 11,045 | |||
| Temporary Teeth 9,819 | ||||||
| (6) Administrations of genera | anaesthetics for extractions | 1,370 | ||||
| (7) Other operations | Permanent Teeth 139 | Total | 164 | |||
| Temporary Teeth 25 | ||||||
| (8) Regulation cases: | 30 | |||||
Group V7.— Uncleanliness and verminous conditions.
(i.) Average number of visits per school made during the year
by the School Nurses 20 5
(ii.) Total number of examinations of children in the Schools
by School Nurses 137,423
(iii.) Number of individual children found unclean 1,815
(iv.) Number of children cleansed under arrangements made by
the Local Education Authority 56
(v.) Number of cases in which legal proceedings were taken: —
(a) Under the Education Act, 1921. —
(b) Under School Attendance Byelaws —