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London County Council 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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26
Downs
hospital :
Mastoid
operations.
| Patients. | Ears. | |
|---|---|---|
| Number of cases treated after mastoid operation | 288 | 334 |
| „ „ non-operation cases treated | 252 | 290 |
| 540 | 624 | |
| Details of the mastoid operation cases are as follows:— | ||
| Number referred from Downs hospital in 1931 | 232 | 270 |
| ,, „ „ ,, „ „ 1930, continuing treatment into 1931 | 56 | 64 |
| 288 | 334 | |
The following are the particulars of the cases referred from Downs hospital in 1931 :—
| Patients. | Ears. | |
|---|---|---|
| Discharged from Downs hospital "Ear dry" | 36 | 37 |
| Treated at aural clinics and cured | 2 | 2 |
| Still under treatment at aural clinics | 23 | 28 |
| Treated at after-care clinic and "cured" | 107 | 126 |
| Still under treatment at after-care clinic | 38 | 46 |
| Referred back to Downs hospital for further operation | 22 | 26 |
| Lapsed | 4 | 5 |
| 232 | 270 |
The following are the particulars of the cases referred from Downs hospital in 1930 and continuing treatment into 1931 :—
| . | Patients. | Ears. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treated at after-care clinic and "cured" | 31 | 36 | |||
| Referred back to Downs hospital for further operation | 18 | 19 | |||
| Lapsed1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Still under treatment at after-care clinic | 4 | 5 | |||
| 56 | 64 | ||||
| Residential school children treated | 165 | ||||
| Discharged cured | 165 | ||||
| Referred for mastoid operation | 9 | ||||
| Still under treatment | 24 | ||||
| 198 | |||||
| Miscellaneous cases : | |||||
| Treated and discharged cured | 66 | 70 | |||
| Still under treatment | 21 | 22 | |||
| 87 | 92 | ||||
| 252 | 290 | ||||
It will thus be seen that of the 334 ears treated, after a mastoid operation during 1931,201 or
60.2 per cent. were "cured," 45 or 13.4 per cent. were failures and had to be re-admitted to the
Downs hospital for a further operation, 51 or 15.3 per cent. were still under treatment at the
after-care clinic at the end of the year, 28 or 8.3 per cent. were still under treatment at other
Council clinics at the end of the year, and 9 or 2.7 per cent. were lost sight of.
With a view of obtaining some information which might prove useful, Mr. Wells, from
detailed information supplied by the medical superintendent, made an analysis of the mastoid
operation cases from the Downs hospital which were followed up at the after-care clinic last year.
Particulars of these were given in the last year's report, and by combining the figures for the
two years, more reliable information is obtained by reason of greater numbers.