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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 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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TABLE B-CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA.
| DIAGNOSIS. | Totals (Ears) | DIAGNOSIS. | TONSILS AND ADENOIDS. | TREATMENT | RESULT. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children over 5 Chronic Tympanic Sepsis. Complicated by:- | Granulations: Simple Polypii. | Mastoid Disease | Enlarge a Tonsils and Adenoids, | . Nasal Catarrh: Rhinitis: Sinusitis | External Otitis Eczema, | Primary (Ear) | Collateral (Nose and Throat) | Cured. | Improve d. | Still under treat ment or observ: | Left or lapsed treatment. | Refd. to Hospital for operation. | Did not attend for or declined treatment. | |||||
| Old Operatic | No Operatior | Zinc Ionisation | Antiseptic Treatment or Cautery. | Tonsils & Adenoids. Conservative Nasal: Diastolisation. | Tonsils & Ads.Operatio] | |||||||||||||
| Granulations: Simple Polypi. | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | Operation before Clinic. | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| - | - | - | - | - | No operation | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
| Mastoid Disease. | 10 | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | Operation . before Clinic. | 6 | 1 | - | - | 4 | l | - | - | 1 | - |
| 4 | - | -_ | - | - | ...No......operation. | 2 | 3 | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Enlarged Tonsils and Adenoids. | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Operation before Clinic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| (i) | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | No operation. | 2 | — | — | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | |
| Nasal Catarrh: | 5 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | Operation before Clinic. | 2 | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rhinitis: Smusitis: | (11) | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | No Operation | 3 | - | 2 | — | 3 | - | - | - | - | |
| Fxternal Otitis: | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Operation., before Clinic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Eczema. | - | - | - | - | - | - | No operation. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | ||
| TOTALS | 18 | - | 11 | 2 | 5 | - | 16 | 5 | 4 | - | 13 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | - | ||
| Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media Solely. | (1)11 | Children over' 5 years.; | 5 | Operation .....befor Clinic | 5 | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| 6 | No Operation. | 6 | - | - | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media Solely | (1) | Children under 5 years. | - | Operation before Clinic. | - | ~ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| 5 | No operation. | 2 | 3 | - | - | 3 | - | - | 2 | - | ||||||||
| Chronic Suppurative Ot: | (1) | Children under 5 years. | - | Op. before C1. | - | - | - | _ | - | _ | ||||||||
| Media with Nasal Cond-itions. Tons. & Ads. | 1 | 1 | No' operation. | - | 1 | - | - | l | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
| GRAND TOTALS. | 35. | 17 | 29 | 9 | 4 | - | 28 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | ||||||
| The figures in brackets indicate the number of cases with Birlateral Otorrhoea, with the exception of Mastoid Disease:- Mastoid Disease - Bi-lateral Otorrhoea. (a) Post-operation ... 3. (b) No Operation ... Nil. | ||||||||||||||||||