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 53 (Continued)
Defects treated at School Treatment Centres and Hospital Ciinics | |
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Errors of refraction and squint | 838 |
Other eye defects | 66 |
Spectacles ordered | 788 |
Athlete's foot | 24 |
Verrucae | 269 |
Ringworm - body | 5 |
Impetigo | 12 |
Other skin diseases | 195 |
Eye diseases | 51 |
Ear diseases | 40 |
Miscellaneous lacerations etc. | 717 |
Orthopaedic and postural defects (treated at schools) | |
B. C. G. Vaccination - Schoolchildren | |
Number of schools visited | 18 |
Number of 13 - year old children offered test | 1, 981 |
Number of consents received | 1. 927 |
Number of children tested | 1,508 |
Number of positive reactors | 107 |
Number of children vaccinated | 1,279 |
Infectious and Other Diseases notified by Schools | |
Disease Nc | . of Notifications |
Chickenpox | 298 |
Dysentery, Diarrhoea | 34 |
German Measles | 208 |
Glandular Fever | 4 |
Impetigo | 28 |
Influenza | 31 |
Jaundice | 10 |
Measles | 167 |
Meningitis | 2 |
Mumps | 382 |
Ophthalmic conjunctivitis | 6 |
Ringworm | 16 |
Scabies | 11 |
Scarlet Fever | 51 |
Tonsillitis | 60 |
Tuberculosis | 1 |
Whooping Cough | 9 |
1,318 | |
(Number notified last year 618) |
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