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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
Lambeth 1971
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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Health Education sessions were held and numerous problems including
drugs and general health topics discussed.
Dr. K.H. Tlusty
Principal Medical Officer
SCHOOL HEALTH STATISTICS
FOR YEAR 1971
| SCHOOL ROLL (May 1971) | 48,095 |
| SCHOOL MEDICAL INSPECTION | |
| Routine | 16,159 |
| Special | 3,865 |
| Re-inspections | 5,950 |
| No. of medical inspections per 1,000 pupils | 540 |
| Health Surveys - comprehensive | 30,966 |
| No. per 1,000 pupils | 644 |
| Percentage found verminous | 2.1 |
| Health Surveys - selective | 9,653 |
| No. per 1,000 pupils | 201 |
| Percentage found verminous | 7.6 |
| Audiometry | |
| No. of children given sweep test | 6,899 |
| No. of children given pure tone test | 781 |
| No. of children referred to otologist at audiology centre | 165 |
SCHOOL MEDICAL TREATMENT Hospital
Specialist Clinics
| Vision Centres | |
| Vision sessions | 188 |
| Number of new cases | 454 |
| Total attendances | 2,437 |
| Errors of refraction and squint | 718 |
| Other eye defects | 36 |
| Spectacles ordered • | 649 |