[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough] page 66

Bethnal Green 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]

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Examination of Elementary School Children in Bethnal Green, 1931.

	BOYS								GIRLS
	Entrants		Age 8		Age 12		Age 14		Entrants		Age 8		Age 12		Age 14
Number examined	1090		976		773		616		1207		977		960		712
Number examined	Cases	*	Cases	* Cases		•	Cases	*	Cases	*	Cases	#	Cases	*	Cases .
Malnutrition	4	2	10	3	2	1	2	1	2	8	5	1	2	—	—	—
Skin disease	14	3	10	8	7	7	2	2	23	12	10	8	5	4	5	3
Defective teeth ...	—	466	—	363	—	274	—	209	—	508	—	356	—	293	_	225
Enlarged tonsils...	278	118	108	38	63	22	47	32	275	106	132	52	113	51	63	47
Adenoids	38	21	21	15	2	1	3	3	28	12	21	14	6	3	3	3
Enlarged tonsils and adenoids	30	20	10	9	7	6	i	1	36	24	10	10	4	4	3	3
Other nose and throat defects	11	2	10	1	5	5	4	2	11	5	8	3	4	3	4	3
Enlarged glands...	33	2	10	1	11	—	9	1	25	—	15	—	10	2	1	—
Eye disease	41	28	29	20	11	9	11	9	52	29	22	17	16	14	6	3
Vision defect	—	—	—	101	—	116	—	84	—	—	—	133	—	150	_	99.
Otorrhoea	n	11	14	5	5	4	2	1	22	12	8	6	8	5	4	4
Other ear disease	7	4	3	3	4	4	7	7	8	4	5	4	2	2	14	14
Defective hearing	—	—	5	5	3	2	2	2	3	2	2	1	2	1	2	2
Speech defects	4	—	5	2	3	2	—	—	1	—	I	1	—	—	1	1
Heart defects	12	1	13	1	11	1	12	3	14	1	18	1	19	1	16	—
Anaemia	11	4	7	3	3	1	9	—	5	—	20	3	16	2	5	2
Lung defects	96	25	41	19	17	6	9	3	121	38	53	22	14	5	6	2
Nervous defects	1	—	6	2	3	2	2	—	8	2	9	4	5	1	3	2
Phthisis	—	—	—	—	1	—	_	—	_	—	1	1	—	—	_	—
Other t.b. disease	—	—	1	1
Rickets	28	3	8	—	4	—	—	_	13	1	15	_	3	_	_	—
Spinal deformities	—	—	—	—	3	1	—	—	—	_	1	_	6	2	3	3
Other deformities	11	2	9	7	14	7	4	1	11	5	13	1	17	4	14	11
Other defects	15	6	33	19	23	14	15	10	27	22	25	14	26	15	13	13
Number of children noted for treat— ment		577		501		397		292		641		513		459		359

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.Defects however slight are included under . cases . ; those severe enough to require treatment are shown under *