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 London County Council]
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the children are attending elementary schools and properly are being supervised
by the responsible authority, the Education Committee, the work was transferred
from the special hospitals division to the school medical service.
The success of the work can be deduced from the accompanying diagram (fig. 2)
giving the reduction in incidence of otorrhoea found at routine inspections from
1911 to 1934.
Aural
clinics.
.Statistics.
Dr. A. G. Wells reports on the special aural work as follows:—
The following tables give the figures for the otorrhoea and the deaf cases treated at the
special aural clinics, and returned by the divisional treatment organisers for the year:—
Table 8.—
Division. | Total no. of examinations made. | New cases. | Cases carried over from 1933. | Old cases returned. | Cases examined, but no treatment required. | Cases cured. | Lost sight of. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Patients. | Ears. | Patients. | Ears. | Patients. | Ears. | Patients. | Ears. | Patients. | Ears. | Patients. | Ears. | Patients. | Ears. | |
S.E. | 4,123 | 4,857 | 388 | 475 | 176 | 202 | 278 | 320 | 36 | 56 | 501 | 608 | 61 | 78 |
N.W. | 2,235 | 2,832 | 203 | 259 | 127 | 154 | 144 | 166 | 57 | 72 | 235 | 290 | 34 | 42 |
N.E. | 2,808 | 3,343 | 215 | 271 | 114 | 132 | 183 | 207 | 38 | 48 | 294 | 339 | 23 | 30 |
N. | 3,490 | 5,454 | 318 | 418 | 144 | 173 | 266 | 334 | 82 | 138 | 374 | 470 | 81 | 97 |
S.VV. | 3,741 | 4,769 | 434 | 612 | 147 | 223 | 226 | 244 | 112 | 223 | 460 | 554 | 35 | 42 |
Total | 16,397 | 21,255 | 1,558 | 2,035 | 708 | 884 | 1,097 | 1,271 | 325 | 537 | 1,864 | 2,261 | 234 | 289 |
From these figures it will be seen that each child averaged approximately five attendances. |
T able 9.—
Division. | Total no. of examinations made. | New cases. | Cases carried over from 1933. | Old cases returned. | Cases cured. | Cases partially relieved. | Cases unrelieved. | Cases requiring no treatment. | Lost sight of. | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Patients. | Ears. | Patients. | Ears. | Patients. | Ears. | Patients. | Ears. | Patients. | Ears. | Patients. | Ears. | Patients. | Ears. | Patients. | Ears. | Patients. | Ears. | |
S.E. | 211 | 377 | 30 | 56 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 18 | 35 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 2 | ||
N.W | 299 | 560 | 29 | 53 | 8 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
N.E. | 108 | 203 | 28 | 52 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 10 | — | — | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
N. | 236 | 433 | 23 | 42 | 19 | 38 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 20 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
S.VV. | 80 | 152 | 18 | 34 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 3 | 6 |
Total | 934 | 1,725 | 128 | 237 | 43 | 85 | 26 | 44 | 49 | 95 | 13 | 25 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 13 | 24 |