Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1923
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gumboils 3, hip joint disease 1, impetigo 20, jaundice 1, laryngitis
1, meningitis 1, anaemia 1, malnutrition 32, measles 2,
mumps 1, neuralgia 1, otorrhoea 4, otitis media 1, parasites 1,
pleurisy 1, pertussis 1, rickets 50, rhinitis 1, scald on face 1, sore
throat 2, scabies 6, stomatitis 8, strabismus 1, thrush 1, tonsillitis
2, worms 2, wasting 1, rheumatism 1, rash 2, cervical
adenitis 1.
Cases of the following diseases were referred to a doct'or :—
Pertussis, mumps, tonsillitis.
The dental cases were referred to a dentist.
Cases of the following diseases were referred to a hospital:—
Meningitis, hip-joint disease, cervical adenitis, laryngitis, otitis
media, adenitis, rickets, boils, rheumatism, enlarged tonsils,
mumps, strabismus, bronchitis, eczema, rickets diarrhoea.
One case of diphtheria was discovered and was notified
immediately to the Medical Officer of Health.
Infants up to 1 year :
Bronchial catarrh 36, boils 2, bronchitis 1, constipation 55,
cough 134, conjunctivitis 5, cervical adenitis 2, convulsions 1,
dyspepsia 49, diarrhoea 30, dentition disorders 6, eczema 2,
general supervision 925, hernia 1, infective enteritis 1, intertrigo
1, jaundice 1, malnutrition 48, naevus 1, omphalitis 3, otorrhoei
6, pertussis 4, prematurity 1, rickets 6, ringworm 1, stomatitis 1,
scabies 1, thrush 26, umbilical hernia 2, ulcerated buttocks 1,
vomiting 12, varicella 2, wasting 1, abscess of neck 1, bronchopneumonia
1.
Cases of the following diseases were referred to a doctor :—
Varicella, diarrhoea, pertussis, bronchitis.
Cases of the following diseases were referred to a hospital:
Cervical adenitis, ringworm, convulsions, enteritis, vomiting,
broncho-pneumonia, malnutrition, pertussis, jaundice, hernia,
wasting, conjunctivitis, abscess of neck,