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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
Battersea 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Examination of Elementary School Children in Battersea, 1937.
| BOYS. | girls. | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entrants | Age 7 | Age 11 | Age 14 | Entrants | Age 7 | Age 11 | Age 14 | |||||||||
| Number examined | 822 | 754 | 763 | 755 | 795 | 816 | 763 | 796 | ||||||||
| Cases | * | Cases | * | Cases | * | Cases | * | Cases | * | Cases | * | Cases | * | Cases | * | |
| Malnutrition | 8 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 |
| Skin disease | 14 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Defective teeth | – | 402 | – | 277 | – | 209 | – | 196 | – | 400 | – | 318 | – | 215 | – | 225 |
| Enlarged tonsils | 75 | 35 | 58 | 33 | 30 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 95 | 43 | 64 | 35 | 40 | 22 | 12 | 8 |
| Adenoids | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Enlarged tonsils and adenoids | 25 | 22 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 2 | – | – | 25 | 22 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| Other nose and throat defects | 6 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | 6 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Enlarged glands | 13 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | 9 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | – |
| Eye disease | 29 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 6 |
| Vision defect | – | – | – | 53 | – | 90 | – | 87 | – | – | – | 51 | – | 105 | – | 81 |
| Otorrhoea | 9 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Other ear disease | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | – | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Defective hearing | – | – | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | – |
| Speech defects | 5 | 5 | 3 | – | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Heart defects | 9 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 7 | – | 7 | 2 | 6 | – | 7 | – | 8 | – | 4 | – |
| Anaemia | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Lung defects | 24 | 18 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | – | 27 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | – | – |
| Nervous defects | 2 | – | 4 | 3 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Phthisis | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Other Tb. disease | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Rickets | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Spinal deformities | – | – | 2 | – | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Other deformities | 9 | 4 | 4 | – | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Other defects | 8 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 3 |
| Number of children noted for treatment | 478 | 360 | 306 | 274 | 446 | 387 | 333 | 305 | ||||||||
* Defects however slight are included under "cases"; those severe enough to require treatment are shown under *