Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Council, 1920. Vol. III. Public Health
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TABLE IV.
Treatment of Defects of Children during 1920.
A.—Treatment of Minor Ailments.
Disease or defect. | Number of children. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Referred for treatment by school doctor. | Treated. | |||
Under scheme. | Otherwise. | Total. | ||
Scabies | 2,864 | 9,675 | - | 9,675 |
Ringworm—Head | 3,983 | 1,840 | 2,016 | 3,856 |
Ringworm—Body | 190 | 61,771 | 2,402 | 64,173 |
Impetigo | 1,627 | |||
Other Skin Diseases | 2,580 | |||
Ear Disease | 4,978 | |||
Eye Disease | 6,164 | |||
Miscellaneous | 1,516 | |||
Total | *23,902 | 73,286 | 4,418 | 77,704 |
* Note.—The numbers treated greatly exceed the numbers referred for treatment by the school doctors. Cases of
minor ailments are referred directly to the centres without ceremony by teachers, care-committee representatives, school
attendance officers, etc.
B.—Treatment of Visual Defect.
Referred for refraction by school doctors. | Submitted to refraction under scheme. | Treated by private agencies. | *Total number treated. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. refracted. | No. of spectacles prescribed. | No. of spectacles obtained. | Other forms of treatment. | |||
21,766 | 29,887 | 22,827 | 19,882 | 7,069 | 2,126 | 32,013 |
* Note.—The number treated is greater than the number referred during the year; this is partly due to catching
up arrears, and partly due to cases being referred directly to the centres from hospitals, etc.
C.—Treatment of Defects of Nose and Throat.
Referred for treatment. | Received treatment. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Under scheme. | Otherwise. | Total. | ||
Operation cases. | Other cases. | |||
16,883 | 9,976 | 4,770 | 2,437 | *17,183 |
* See Note to IV. B.
D.—Treatment of Dental Defect. I.
Inspected by dentist. | Number of children dealt with in 1920. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Referred for treatment. | Treated under scheme. | Re-treated under scheme. | Otherwise treated. | ||
By dentist. | By school doctor. | ||||
154,347 | 115,619 | 56,232 | 89,456 | 10,663 | 5,185 |
II. Particulars of time given and of operations undertaken.
No. of half-days dentist to inspection. | No. of half-days dentist to treatment. | No. of attendances made by children. | No. of teeth extracted. | No. of fillings. | No. of other operations. | No. of general anaesthetics. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Temporary. | Permanent. | Temporary. | Permanent. | |||||
1,859 | 13,727 | 141,905 | 272,054 | 36,582 | 21,926 | 46,806 | 17,143 | 34,913 |