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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
Acton 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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Table 3 —
| SENIOR GIRLS | No Children ex mined. | Mal-Nutrition | Clothing | Want of Cleanliness | Verminous | Carious teeth | Enlarged Tonsils | Adenoids. | Enlarged Glands. | External Eye Disease | Defective Vision. | Defective Hearing. | Ear Disease. | Defective Speech. | Heart Disease. | Lung Disease. | Infectious Diseases. | Other Diseases. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average | Average Below | Head | Body | |||||||||||||||||
| Central Girls | 11 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Actcn Girls | 12 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Willesden Girls | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Roman Catholic | 7 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Priorv Girls | 26 | 26 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Sth. Acton Girls | 38 | 4 | 30 | 8 | 7 | 24 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | ||||||
| Southfield Road | 33 | 32 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
| (Senior) Beaumont Prrk | 27 | 3 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | |||||||
| 160 | 7 | 142 | 18 | 12 | 46 | 9 | 21 | 36 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 27 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||
Table 3 —
| SENIOR BOYS. | No. Examined. | Clothing and Footgear. | Under Nourished | Verminous, | Carious Teeth. | Polypus of Nose. | Enlarged Tonsils. | Adenoids. | Enlarged Glands. | Eye Disease. | Defective Vision. | Ear Disease | Impaired Hearing. | Speech Impaired | Heart Disease | Lung Disease | Tubercle. | Rickets. | Deformities | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average | Below Average | Head. | Body. | ||||||||||||||||||
| South Action | 32 | 25 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| Priory | 37 | 28 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| Beaumont Park | 25 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 8 | I | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Catholic | 13 | 11 | 2 | 1 | •• | 3 | 2 | ... | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| St. Marry's | 12 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Southfield Road | 23 | 28 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | I | |||||||||
| Central | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Willesden junction | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Total | 159 | 123 | 26 | 18 | 4 | 5 | 38 | 3 | 34 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 34 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 3 | ||