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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Advice and treatment wore given at the clinics held at the
Old Sessions House, Clerkenwell Green, for the following1 conditions
:—
Mothers, expectant :
General advice '23, vomiting 2, debility 2, constipation 18,
cough 2, varicose veins 2, menorrhagia 1, anaemia 9.
Mothers, nursing :
General advice 4, dyspepsia 19, constipation 42, cough 5,
scalded leg 3, neuralgia 2, anaemia 1 fl, debility 70, inflammation
of breast 2, menorrhagia 1, bronchial catarrh 1, pleurisy 1,
varicose veins 3, hernia 2, prolapsus uteri 2.
Patients referred to a private doctor or to hospital for
further treatment included the following conditions :—Menorrhagia
2, pleurisy 1, and to the Metropolitan Nursing Association
for nursing :—Scalded leg 1.
Children 1—5 years :
General supervision 301, abscess of neck 1, anaemia 1,
bronchial catarrh 3, burnt fobt 1, constipation 13, cough 53,
dentition disorders 5, dyspepsia 20, diarrhoea 10, enlarged tonsils
7, general debility 30, herpes 2, impetigo (!, malnutrition 13,
otorrhoea 3, pertussis 1, rickets 31, ringworm 1, scabies 2,
stomatitis 1, vomiting 1.
Of these cases the following were referred tb hospital or to
a private doctor:—Pertussis 1, burnt foot 1, abscess of neck 1,
enlarged tonsils 7, and ringworm 1 case.
Infants up to 1 year :
General supervision 451, boils 1, bronchial catarrh 3, bronchitis
5, conjunctivitis 6,' constipation 59, cbugh 52, diarrhoea
24, dentition disorders 10, dyspepsia 26, enlarged tonsils 1,
general debility 7, herpes 3, impetigo 3, malnutrition 30, pertussis
1, prematurity 2, rhinorrhoca 3, rickets 11, scabies 2, stomatitis 3,
thrush 11, vomiting 18. •