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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 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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TABLE SHOWING HEIGHTS AND WEIGHTS AT DIFFERENT AGES.
| INTERMEDIATES (GIRLS) | No. Examined. | Years of Age. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7—8 | 8—9 | 9—10 | ||||||||
| No. | Height ins. | Weight lbs. | No. | Height ins. | Weight lbs. | No. | Height ins. | Weight lbs. | ||
| Acton Wells Junior | 13 | 7 | 49.1 | 51.6 | 6 | 48.3 | 51.6 | - | - | - |
| Acton Wells Infts.' | 42 | 21 | 48.3 | 53 | 21 | 49.3 | 53 | - | - | - |
| Beaum't P:.Jnr.Girls | 44 | 20 | 48.8 | 51.7 | 23 | 49.8 | 55.7 | 1 | 51.3 | 56.5 |
| Beaumont Pk. Infts.' | 3 | 3 | 48.1 | 48.4 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Berrymede Jnr. Girls' | 87 | 44 | 48.5 | 51.7 | 41 | 48.4 | 52.5 | 2 | 51.3 | 57.8 |
| Berrymede Infants' | 6 | 6 | 48.1 | 49.4 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Derwentwater Jnr. | 46 | 29 | 49.5 | 55.3 | 17 | 49. | 51.2 | - | - | - |
| Derwentwater Infts.' | 9 | 9 | 49.2 | 59.1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Perryn Junior | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 50. | 52.8 | 1 | 51.5 | 59 |
| John Perryn Infts. | 41 | 15 | 47.7 | 48.8 | 26 | 49.5 | 53.7 | - | - | - |
| Priory Infants' | 5 | 5 | 47.9 | 50.3 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Rothschild Infants' | 7 | 7 | 48.3 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Southfield Junior | 40 | 13 | 48.0 | 56.3 | 27 | 48.0 | 52.7 | - | - | - |
| Southfield Infants' | 1 | 1 | 45.8 | 46. | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roman Catholic | 10 | 9 | 48.1 | 51. | 6 | 49.4 | 53.1 | 1 | 57.5 | 67 |
| 302 | 189 | 168 | 5 | |||||||
Tonsils and Adenoids.
During the year 47 children were operated on under the
Authority's scheme for removal of tonsils and adenoids or adenoids
alone. In 1932, fifty-eight children were operated on, and in
1931, one hundred and sixty one.
Last year we discussed at some length the principles which
guided us in our selection of cases for operation and explained our
views on the necessity for conserving healthy tonsils and adenoid
tissue in children wherever possible.
Parents have been so strongly convinced in the past by the
lay press that tonsils and adenoids are the cause of all ailments,
that a day rarely passes without at least one child being sent to
the Clinic with a request for operation. Very often parents do not
bother even to accompany the child.