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St Pancras 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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72
SCHOOLS.
The medical inspection and treatment of children in Elementary Schools in St. Pancras
is carried out by the London County Council independently of the Borough Council. The
County Medical Officer has kindly furnished me with particulars of medical inspections of
school children in St. Pancras during 1924. They are classified in the following Tables : —
Medical Examination ok Elementary School Children in St. Pancras, 1924.
| Complaint. | Boys. | Girls. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entrants. | Age 8. | Age 12. | Entrants. | Age 8. | Age 12. | |||||||
| Number examined | 1759 | 1315 | 1648 | 1594 | 1350 | 1623 | ||||||
| Malnutrition | * | |||||||||||
| Skin disease | ||||||||||||
| Defective teeth | - | — | — | — | _ | — | ||||||
| Enlarged tonsils (only) | ||||||||||||
| Adenoids (only) | ||||||||||||
| Tonsils and adenoids (together) | ||||||||||||
| Other nose and throat defects | ||||||||||||
| Enlarged glands | - | |||||||||||
| Eye disease | ||||||||||||
| Defective vision | — | — | _ | — | ||||||||
| Otorrhoea | 15 | 14 | ||||||||||
| Other ear disease | 4 | 4 | - | 4 | 7 | |||||||
| Defective hearing | 1 | |||||||||||
| Speech defects | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | ||||||
| Heart defects | ||||||||||||
| Anaemia | 47 | |||||||||||
| Lung defects (non.tuberculous) | 1 | |||||||||||
| Defects of nervous system | — | 1 | 1 | 4 | — | |||||||
| Phthisis | 1 | 4 | 2 | — | ||||||||
| Other tubercular disease | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Rickets | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||
| Spinal deformities | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Other deformities | 1 | — | 1 | — | ||||||||
| Other defects | ||||||||||||
| Number of children noted for treatment | ||||||||||||
Note:—Defects, however slight, are included under "Cases." Those severe enough to require treatment are shown
under *.