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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
Bethnal Green 1926
Report on the health of the Borough of Bethnal Green during the year 1926
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Number of attendances for light treatment—
| Number of attendances for light treatment— | ||
| Mondays | 855 | 2,066 |
| Wednesdays | 648 | |
| Fridays | 563 | |
| Lamp in use (hours) | 287 | |
| Number of Doctors' sessions | 45 | |
| Average attendance per session | 34 | |
| Children sent to convalescent homes | 13 | |
My thanks are due to the Staff of the Cornwall Road Infant
Welfare Centre for the constant co-operation and help they
have given me.
H. M. M. Mackay, M.D., M.R.C.P.
MASSAGE.
The number of massage sessions held was 244,
the number of children who received massage was 142
(including 98 new cases) and they made 1,730 attendances.
The children were referred to the massage
room by the doctors attending the consultations, and
a record was kept of the condition of each child at
the beginning of the treatment and during its course.
Every endeavour was made to teach the mothers
to carry out simple massage at home in order to
supplement the attendance at the Centre, which had
to be perforce restricted to once or twice a week.
The conditions for which the children were referred were:—
| The conditions for which the children were referred were:— | |
| Poor Muscular development | 91 |
| Rickets | 23 |
| Knock-knee (5) Bowed legs (9) | 14 |
| Talipes (2) Flat feet (1) | 3 |
| Constipation | 4 |
| Poliomyelitis | 3 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 |
| General debility after illness | 3 |