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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. | DIAGNOSIS. | TREATMENT | RESULT | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children over 5 Chronic Tympanic Sepsis. Complicated by:- | Total (Ears) | Granulations: Simple Polypii | Mastoids Disease | Enlarged Tonsils and Adenoids | Nasal Catarrh: Rhinitis: Sinusitis | External Otitis Eczema, | TONSILS AND ADENOIDS. | Primary (Ear) | Collateral (Nose and Thrnf) | Cured. | Improved, | Still under treat ment or observ: | Left or lapsed treatment. | Refd. to Hospital for operation. | Did not attend for or declined treatment. | |||
| Old Operation | No Operation | Zinc Ionisation. | Antiseptic Treatment orj Cautery. | Tonsils & Adenoids. Conservative Nasal: Diastolisa-tion. | Tonsils & Ads. Operation | |||||||||||||
| Granulations: Simple Polypi. | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | Cperation before Clinic.. | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | No operation. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| mastoid Disease. | 10 | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | Operation before Clinic | 6 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
| - | 4 | - | - | - | - | No operation | 3 | - | - | 4. | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Enlarged Tonsils and adenoids. | 2(l) | - | - | - | - | - | - | Operation before Clinic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| - | - | - 1 | 2 | - | - | No operation. | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | ||
| Nasal Catarrh: Rhinitis: Sinusitis: | 5 (1) | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | Operation . before Clinic | 2 | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| - | - | - | - | 3 | - | No Operation | 3 | - | 2 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| External Otitis: Eczema. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Operation before Clinic. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | 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 before Clinic. | 5 | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| 6 | No operation. | 6 | - | - | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media Solely. | (1) 5 | Children under 5 years . | - | Operation before Clinic, | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| 5 | No operation. | 2 | 3 | - | - | 3 | - | - | 2 | - | - | |||||||
| Chronic Suppurative of Media with Nasal Conditions. Tons. & Ads. | (1) 1 | Children under 5 years | _ | Op.before Cl. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| 1 | No operation. | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| GRAND TOTALS. | 35 | 17 | 29 | 9 | 4 | - | 28 | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | |||||||
| The figures in brackets indicate the number of cases with Bi-lateral Otorrhoca, with the exception of Mastoid Disease:- Mastoid Disease - Bi-lateral Otorrhoea. (a) Post-operation 3. (b) No Operation Nil. | ||||||||||||||||||