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Poplar 1928

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

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Example of success:
D. M., aged 12 months, 2 teeth (dried milk). Weight
191b. 40Z. Not walking. Did not gain weight
till after 6 exposures, but began cutting teeth slowly.
Improved all round, walking after 13 exposures.
8 teeth and weight 20½lb. after 33 exposures.
Disturbed Dentition, 38 cases:
Of these: 23 were successful.
11 ,, moderately successful.
4 failed to improve.
Example of success:—
G. S., 13 months. 8 teeth, beginning to walk, recent
diarrhoea, cough and loss of weight 2ilb. 2oz. Child
excitable. Short exposures given at first (3 minutes).
Uninterrupted improvement for 17 exposures, weight
22lb. 70Z.
(The failures failed to attend).
Bronchitis, 14 cases.
Of these: 7 were successful.
5 ,, moderately successful.
2 failed to improve.
Enlarged Glands, 10 cases.
Of these: 5 were successful.
2 ,, moderately successful.
3 failed to improve.
I consulted the T.B. department about a few cases in the last two
groups: these were observed over a period of time and pronounced nontuberculous.
The most persistent chronic bronchitis (with asthma
developing) I succeeded in getting away to Carshalton after failing to
improve her condition here.