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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
Greenwich 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]
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287
Defects treated at Vision Clinics
Defect Number
Error of refraction and squint 3,438
Other eye defects 24
Spectacles ordered 1,052
Findings at Health Surveys
School Roll (May 1967) 38,579
1. Comprehensive surveys
(a) Number examined 27,605
(b) Number (occasions) found verminous 165
(c) Percentage found verminous 0.60
2. Selective surveys
(a) Number examined 27,280
(b) Number (occasions) found verminous 480
(c) Percentage found verminous 1.76
3. Verminous cases
(a) Total times vermin found 645
(b) Total percentage found verminous 1.18
(c) Number of individual pupils found
verminous 396
(d) Percentage of individuals found
verminous (of School Roll) 1.03
4. Action taken with verminous cases
(a) Advice and/or Lorexane 526
(b) Further action 119
(c) Percentage of cases given advice and/or
Lorexane requiring further action 22.12
Voluntary attendances at bathing centres:
Number of pupils 99
Number of statutory notices issued —
5. Communicable disease surveys
Numbers catered for: 1967 1966
Athlete's foot 6,230 11,122
Plantar warts 7,257 10,778
Dysentery 434 71
Other communicable diseases 3,223 1,833
17,144 23,804