Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough]
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TABLE 58
No. examined | Occasions vermin found | Percentage | |||
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(a) Comprehensive | 22,639 | 759 | 3.35 | ||
(b) Selective | 13,726 | 743 | 5.41 | ||
No. of individual pupils found verminous | ... | 356 | |||
Percentage of school roll | ... | 1.09 | |||
Vermin - occasions advice and/or shampoo given | ... | 1,326 | |||
- occasions attendance at bathing centre | ... | 176 | |||
(c) Communicable disease - No. examined for | ... | 1,462 | |||
Routine Audiometer Testing | |||||
No. of children given screening test | 3, 852 | ||||
No. failing screening test and given pure tone test | ... | 205 | |||
No. failing pure tone test and referred to Otologist | ... | 114 | |||
School Medical Treatment | |||||
Clinic | No. of premises | Sessions in year | New Cases | Attendances | |
Audiology | 1 | 93 | 224 | 650 | |
Bathing | 2 | 578* | 801 | 1, 176 | |
Minor ailments - Medical Officer | 6 | 134 | 661 | 17,379 | |
- Nurse | 8 | 753 | 994 | ||
Ophthalmic | 4 | 293 | 1,230 | 3,011 | |
Orthoptic | 1 | 80 | 101 | 172 | |
Special investigation | 3 | 141 | 121 | 1,126 | |
*includes also adult sessions |
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