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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 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]

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Table: Pupils found to require treatment.Number of individual pupils found at periodic medical inspection to require treatment (excluding dental disease and infestation with vermin).

Pupils found to require treatment.

Number of individual pupils found at periodic medical inspection to require treatment (excluding dental disease and infestation with vermin).

Group.For defective vision (excluding squint).For any of the other conditions recorded in Table 11.a.Total individual pupils.
(1)(2)(3)(4)
Entrants10280287
2nd Age Group11579190
3rd Age Group10865171
Total (prescribed group)233424648
Other periodic inspections9514
Grand Total242429662

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TABLE HI.
TREATMENT TABLES.
NOTES.
(a) The tables should deal with all defects treated, or under treatment,
during the year however, they were brought to the Authority's notice,
i.e. whether by periodic inspection, special inspection, or otherwise,
during the year in question or previously.
(b) Owing to the difficulty of distinguishing between cases treated under
the Authority's schemes and those treated otherwise. the treatment
tables (excluding dental) should include all cases known to the
Authority to have received treatment. whether at their own clinics
or elsewhere.

Table: Group I.: MINOR AILMENTS (excluding Uncleanliness, for which seeTable V)

Group I.: MINOR AILMENTS (excluding Uncleanliness, for which see

Table V)

Number of defects treated, or under treatment during the year.
Skin. Ringworm—Scalp :
(1) X-Ray treatment—
(2) Other treatment—
Ringworm—Body:3
Scabies10
Impetigo34
Other Skin Diseases302