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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
London County Council 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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These figures shew the educational drag that the conditions accompanying mouth-breathing
effect, but not wholly, for these children are from higher elementary schools and upper standards, and
it would require a wider basis, to include the children kept down in the standards by ear disorder,
to give full expression to the educational seriousness of this condition.
Enlargement of glands and insufficient hearing were, however, less frequent.
| Boys. | Mouthbreathers. 118 M.D, boys with sufficient hearing to pass the test. | Mouthbreathers. 17 boys with insufficient hearing to pass the test. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ages. | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| Mouth-breathers | 20 | 29 | 25 | 30 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Cicatrices | _ | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | _ | 1 | 3 | 1 | _ |
| Opacities | 2 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 3 | — | — | — | 1 | _ j |
| Perforations | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 |
| Discharging ears | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Enlarged tonsils | 6 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Adenoids | 14 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Enlarged glands | 9 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 90 non-mouthbreathers. | 4 non-mouthbreathers,- | |||||||||
| Non-mouthbreathers | 20 | 15 | 28 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Gicatrices | 1 | 2 | 4 | — | — | — | — | _ | _ | |
| Opacities | 6 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | 1 | — | — | _ |
| Perforations | — | 2 | 4 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | _ |
| Discharging ears | 2 | 3 | 5 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | _ |
| Enlarged tonsils | 7 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | _ |
| Adenoids | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | _ | _ |
| Enlarged glands | 5 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | — | — | 1 | 1 | - |
| Girls | 52 M.D. girls mouthbreathers with sufficient hearing to pass test. | 15 mouthbreathers with insufficient hearing to pass the test. | ||||||||
| Ages. | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| Mouthbreathers | 16 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| Oicatrices | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Opacities | 4 | 2 | — | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | — |
| Perforations | 1 | — | — | 3 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Discharging ears | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 3 | — |
| Enlarged tonsils | 10 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Adenoids | 12 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 |
| Enlarged glands | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| 43 non-mouthbreathers.- | 7 non-mouthbreathers; | |||||||||
| Non-mouthbreathers | 14 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Oicatrices | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Opacities | 1 | — | 2 | 4 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| Perforations | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Discharging ears | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | —• |
| Enlarged tonsils | 9 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| Adenoids | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — |
| Enlarged glands | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | - | |