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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 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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| 3. | Number employed in— | M. | F. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (a) Industrial or manual occupations (i.e., factory work, and trade or part of a trade) | 473 | 313 | 786 | |
| (6) Agricultural or rural occupations | 7 | — | 7 | |
| (c) Domestic occupations (i.e., servants sleeping in or out, lift boys and those "helping at home ") | 19 | 145 | 164 | |
| (d) Commercial (i.e., shop assistants or selling behind a counter), professional (or Army and Navy), clerical (office boys and girls) | 8 | 2 | 10 | |
| (e) Blind alley or other precarious occupations (i.e., van boys, newsboys, errand boys or girls selling from a barrow) | 105 | 8 | 113 | |
| 4. | Judged to be employable but out of work | 63 | 50 | 113 |
| 5. | Number whose careers have not been traced or who have left the neighbourhood | 27 | 14 | 41 |
| Total analysed under headings 2, 3, 4 and 5 | 744 | 578 | 1,322 | |
An investigation was made during the year of the records of 4,061 children who were in the P.D. schools of London at Easter, 1928. The following table shows the number in attendance at P.D. Special Schools, Easter, 1928, and the special defect classified in sex and age groups.
| Condition. | Age 5—14 years. | Age 14 + years. | Grand total M. and F. | Percentage. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | |||
| Rickets—Rickety deformities | 34 | 35 | 1 | 8 | 78 | 1.9 |
| Congenital Defects | 102 | 72 | 18 | 31 | 223 | 5.5 |
| Traumata | 72 | 23 | 16 | 4 | 115 | 2.8 |
| Amputation after disease | 5 | — | 2 | — | 7 | .2 |
| Fragilitas Ossium | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | .2 |
| Osteomyelitis | 42 | 23 | 10 | 4 | 79 | 1.9 |
| Non-Tuberculous Arthritis | 26 | 25 | 3 | 7 | 61 | 1.5 |
| T.B. bones and joints—Spine | 110 | 84 | 27 | 36 | 257 | 17.9 |
| „ „ Hip | 103 | 81 | 31 | 46 | 261 | |
| „ „ Knee | 62 | 40 | 20 | 8 | 130 | |
| „ „ Elbow | 2 | 2 | 3 | — | 7 | |
| „ „ Ankle | 18 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 37 | |
| „ „ Various | 17 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 34 | |
| Paralyses Infantile—Upper | 14 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 34 | 19.0 |
| „ „ Lower | 298 | 208 | 89 | 82 | 677 | |
| „ „ Upper and Lower | 15 | 20 | 16 | 9 | 60 | |
| Hemiplegia | 58 | 47 | 10 | 10 | 125 | 3.1 |
| Spastic Diplegia | 52 | 68 | 7 | 13 | 140 | 3.4 |
| Other Paralyses | 27 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 49 | 1.2 |
| Heart Congenital | 87 | 116 | 16 | 32 | 251 | 6.2 |
| „ Valvular | 307 | 426 | 90 | 175 | 998 | 24.6 |
| „ Non-Valvular | 34 | 43 | 8 | 5 | 90 | 2.2 |
| Rheumatism—Chorea | 47 | 97 | 3 | 19 | 166 | 4.1 |
| Tuberculous Peritonitis | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 9 | .2 |
| Pseudo Hypertrophic and other Muscular Dystrophies | 16 | 5 | _ | 1 | 22 | .5 |
| Epilepsy | — | 2 | — | — | 2 | .0 |
| Encephalitis | 5 | 6 | 1 | — | 12 | .3 |
| Various chest conditions, Bronchiectasis, Empyema, etc. | 17 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 33 | .8 |
| Anaemia | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | .3 |
| Nephritis, etc | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | .1 |
| Various | 42 | 24 | 11 | 3 | 80 | 2.0 |
| Total | 1,628 | 1,521 | 403 | 509 | 4,061 | |
Orthopasdies.
The matter of the use of apparatus was also considered with the following results:—
| Suffering from medical disorders or conditions for which apparatus was not applicable | 1,977=48.7% |
| Still wearing apparatus | 1,353=33.3% |