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Tower Hamlets 1968

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough]

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Table: TABLE 59 (continued)Routine Vision Tests - Visual acuity standards expressed as percentage of children tested

TABLE 59 (continued)

Routine Vision Tests - Visual acuity standards expressed as percentage of children tested

Not wearing spectaclesWearing spectacles
6/66/96/12 or worseReferred for treatment6/66/9 66/12 or worseReferred for treatment
Boys82.16.35.55.73.01.41.73.8
Girls79.27.76.07.03.51.81.84.6
No. of boys tested - 5,492No. of girls tested - 4,858
Health Surveys
No. examinedOccasions vermin foundPercentage
(a) Comprehensive18,2914442.43
(b) Selective7,6994946.42
No. of individual pupils found verminous672
Percentage of school roll1.99
Vermin - occasions advice and/or Lorexane given834
- occasions attendance at bathing centre104
(c) Communicable disease - No. examined for;
Athlete's foot65
Plantar warts164
Other communicable diseases72
Routine Audiometer Testing
No. of children given screening test4,293
No. failing screening test and given pure tone test307
No. failing pure tone test and referred to Otologist198
School Medical Treatment
ClinicNo. of premisesSessions in yearNew casesAttendances
Audiology196215659
Bathing2590*6811,065
Ear, Nose and Throat101250594
Minor ailments - Medical Officer610663420,967
- Nurse88711,366
Ophthalmic43161,1023,022
Orthoptic19477256
Physiotherapy (to 7 September 1968)3251122,082
Special Investigation31681891,350
Physiotherapy treatments
- Remedial exercises1,909
- Massage1,861
- Ultra-violet light156
- Infra-red20
* includes also adult sessions

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