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London County Council 1920
Annual report of the Council, 1920. Vol. III. Public Health
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TABLE V.
Summary of Treatment of Defects as shown in Table IV.
| Disease or defect. | Number of children. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Referred for treatment. | Treated. | |||
| Under scheme. | Otherwise. | Total. | ||
| Minor ailments | 23,902 | 73,286 | 4,418 | 77,704 |
| Visual defects | 21,766 | 29,887 | 2,126 | 32,013 |
| Nose and throat defects | 16,883 | 14,746 | 2,437 | 17,183 |
| Dental defect | 171,851 | 89,456 | 5,185 | 94,641 |
| Other defects | 23,988 | 1,022 | 20,137 | 21,159 |
| Total | 258,390 | 208,397 | 34,303 | 242,700 |
TABLE VI.
Summary relating to Children Medically Inspected at the Routine Inspections during the year 1920.
| (1) Total number of children examined at routine examinations | 224,219 | ||
| (2) Number of children suffering from— | |||
| Malnutrition | 2,497 | Heart disease, organic | 880 |
| Skin disease | 3,959 | Heart disease, functional | 2,093 |
| Defective vision and squint | 75,726 | Heart disease, not defined | 4,717 |
| Eye disease | 3,469 | Lung disease (not stated to be tubercular) | 10,192‡ |
| Defective hearing | 2,281 | Pulmonary tuberculosis, definite | 203 |
| Ear disease | 4,566 | Pulmonary tuberculosis, suspected | 279 |
| Nose and throat defects | 36,761 | Non-pulmonary tuberculosis | 576 |
| Enlarged cervical glands | 13,826 | Nervous diseases | 2,502 |
| Defective speech | 1,408 | Deformities and rickets | 6,706 |
| Dental disease | 103,285 | Other defects and diseases | 7,150 |
| Anaemia | 9,094 | ||
| (3) Number of children in (1) suffering from defects (other than uncleanliness or defective clothing) who require to be kept under observation (but not referred for treatment) | 20,667 | ||
| (4) Number of children in (1) referrel for treatment (excluding uncleanliness and defective clothing) | 88,466 | ||
| (5) The number of children referred for treatment during 1920 who were reported at re-inspection to have received treatment for one or more defects | 8,536† | ||
‡ Many of these cases are probably suspected tuberculosis though not definitely stated to be so.
† Very incomplete. Only the children referred for treatment during the first term of the year are re-inspected
during the same year.