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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

Paddington 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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Table: The following Table summarises the work done among the children attending the Centre during 1931 :—

The following Table summarises the work done among the children attending the Centre during 1931 :—

Referred for treatment for active rheumatism :
as in-patient, P.G.C.H3
as out-patient, P.G.C.H.32
elsewhere5
Removal of diseased tonsils :
as in-patient, P.G.C.H.7
as out-patient, P.G.C.H.6
elsewhere1
Referred home conditions to Sanitary authorities2
Recommendations :
to P. D. Schools2
to Convalescent Homes2
to long period in country2
Kept under observation81
Discharged :
over age16
non-rhuematic1
died0
lapsed5
gone away3

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REGINALD H„ MILLER,
m.d., f.r.c.p., (London).
Physician in Charge.
Discharges.—The chief causes of discharges from the Centre are over-age and removal
tO other districts. The number which lapse out of slackness is surprisingly small and hardly
ever occurs in such cases as have actual heart disease.