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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 1953

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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The following summary of the work carried out at Guy's Hospital illustrates the
value of this hospital/school health service co-operation :

Table: The total attendances of school pupils in departments of Guy s Hospital covered by the organisers was 6,530. The main details are given in the following table :

The total attendances of school pupils in departments of Guy s Hospital covered by the organisers was 6,530. The main details are given in the following table :

DepartmentNew CasesAttendances
Children's3611,055
Ear, Nose and Throat471770
Vision2301,750
Orthoptic68675
Orthopaedic133312
Skin249456

Table: An organiser also works in certain departments of the Evelina Hospital for Children, which is part of the Guy's Hospital Group, and the following is a summary of her report :

An organiser also works in certain departments of the Evelina Hospital for Children, which is part of the Guy's Hospital Group, and the following is a summary of her report :

DepartmentNew CasesAttendances
Ear, Nose and Throat535982
Vision48422
Orthoptic13332
Medical108254

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Treatment statistics

Table: Care should therefore be exercised before attempting to draw conclusions about the incidence of defects or the extent to which treatment has been obtained, from the figures that follow:

Care should therefore be exercised before attempting to draw conclusions about the incidence of defects or the extent to which treatment has been obtained, from the figures that follow:

Type of clinic1950195119521953
*VisionNew Cases32,46234,23135,64935,222
Attendances85,36486,75891,69392,511
*OrthopticNew Cases9421,4351,4011,517
Attendances12,74515,38515,78411,564
*Ear, Nose and ThroatNew Cases6,9747,2897,7696,301
Attendances15,13816,56517,40815,291
AudiologyNew Cases——1,2061,330
Attendances——2,4072,676
Minor AilmentsNew Cases163,658155,080151,903169,443
Attendances1,014,1551,005,549954,532794,263
DentalNew Cases82,65082,56493,823116,499
Attendances166,874172,063202,571269,061
*RheumatismNew Cases1,2241,100971959
Attendances10,0889,2027,9886,936
NutritionNew Cases1,3501,3801,1511,144
Attendances10,06710,98411,16210,593
Special InvestigationNew Cases——590957
Attendances——3,0274,588
*EnuresisNew Cases9111,267952808
Attendances5,1106,3445,4494,026

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* Hospital and specialist services provided by boards of governors or regional hospital boards.
Handicapped pupils
The place of special schools in the care of handicapped children has been under review
since the war. There has been a general movement in mcdicine away from the overcautious
attitude that it is said was adopted by the school health service in the nineteen-