London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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

Tower Hamlets 1972

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

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Table: TABLE 53 (Continued)

TABLE 53 (Continued)

Defects treated at School Treatment Centres and Hospital Ciinics
Errors of refraction and squint838
Other eye defects66
Spectacles ordered788
Athlete's foot24
Verrucae269
Ringworm - body5
Impetigo12
Other skin diseases195
Eye diseases51
Ear diseases40
Miscellaneous lacerations etc.717
Orthopaedic and postural defects (treated at schools)
B. C. G. Vaccination - Schoolchildren
Number of schools visited18
Number of 13 - year old children offered test1, 981
Number of consents received1. 927
Number of children tested1,508
Number of positive reactors107
Number of children vaccinated1,279
Infectious and Other Diseases notified by Schools
Disease Nc. of Notifications
Chickenpox298
Dysentery, Diarrhoea34
German Measles208
Glandular Fever4
Impetigo28
Influenza31
Jaundice10
Measles167
Meningitis2
Mumps382
Ophthalmic conjunctivitis6
Ringworm16
Scabies11
Scarlet Fever51
Tonsillitis60
Tuberculosis1
Whooping Cough9
1,318
(Number notified last year 618)

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