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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 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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Examination of Elementary School Children in Bethnal Green, 1930.
| BOYS | GIRLS | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entrants | Age 8 | Age 12 | Age 14 | Entrants | Age 8 | Age 12 | Age 14 | |||||||||
| Number examined | 956 | 1031 | 655 | 828 | 1083 | 1048 | 747 | 824 | ||||||||
| Cases | * | Cases | * | Cases | * | Cases | * | Cases | * | Cases | * | Cases | * | Cases | * | |
| Malnutrition | 6 | 4 | 14 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 |
| Skin disease | 21 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Defective teeth | - | 435 | - | 388 | - | 236 | - | 280 | - | 484 | - | 386 | - | 209 | - | 281 |
| (=46 .6%) | (=44.7%) | |||||||||||||||
| Enlarged tonsils | 232 | 63 | 121 | 59 | 77 | 47 | 72 | 45 | 255 | 88 | 210 | 96 | 86 | 32 | 81 | 39 |
| Adenoids | 33 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 26 | 11 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Enlarged tonsils and adenoids | 33 | 29 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 27 | 20 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Other nose and throat defects | 14 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 29 | 4 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| Enlarged glands | 48 | - | 42 | - | 23 | 1 | 21 | - | 33 | 1 | 52 | - | 23 | - | 21 | - |
| Eye disease | 39 | 27 | 27 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 19 | 10 | 54 | 43 | 33 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 8 |
| Vision defect | - | - | - | 111 | - | 110 | - | 132 | — | - | - | 149 | - | 118 | - | 120 |
| Otorrhoea | 13 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Other ear disease | 10 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 8 |
| Defective hearing | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | - |
| Speech defects | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 5. | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Heart defects | 24 | - | 26 | 2 | 8 | - | 22 | 2 | 16 | - | 26 | 1 | 19 | - | 21 | - |
| Anaemia | 11 | 4 | 18 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 3 | - | 13 | 4 | 22 | 3 | 5 | - | 8 | - |
| Lung defects | 107 | 31 | 39 | 9 | 24 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 94 | 31 | 47 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 15 | 4 |
| Nervous defects | 6 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | - | 8 | - | 8 | 3 | 8 | 94 | 3 | 2 |
| Phthisis | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Other t.b. disease | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rickets | 36 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 25 | - | 4 | - | 2 | - | - | - |
| Spinal deformities | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 15 | 15 |
| Other deformities | 10 | 4 | 2 | - | 7 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 17 | 3 | 16 | 2 | 15 | 6 |
| Other defects | 31 | 19 | 34 | 24 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 43 | 29 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 5 | 20 | 13 |
| Number of children noted for treatment | 548 | 526 | 342 | 410 | 605 | 579 | 331 | 404 | ||||||||
| 57.3 | 51 .0 | 52 .2 | 49 .2 | 55.9 | 55.2 | 44 .3 | 49.0 | |||||||||
Defects however slight are included under " cases " ; those severe enough to require treatment are shown under *