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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 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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TABLE 7.
TREATMENT OF DEFECTS OF CHILDREN DURING 1915;
| No. of defects found for which treatment was considered necessary. | No of Defects for which no report is available | No. of Defects treated | Results of Treatment | No. of Defects not treated | Obser vatior only. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From previous year. | New | Total | Remedied | Improved | Unchanged | Notified during last quarter dm for Report in 1916. | Percentage of defects treated | |||||
| Cleanliness of Head | 7 | 2313 | 2320 | 212 | 1932 | 410 | 1370 | 152 | 4 | 172 | 83% | |
| Cleanliness of Body | ||||||||||||
| Nose and Throat | 99 | 219 | 318 | 18 | 209 | 172 | 31 | 6 | 58 | 33 | 66% | 20 |
| External Eye Disease | 2 | 126 | 128 | 3 | 124 | 74 | 50 | 1 | 97% | 1 | ||
| Ear Disease | 50 | 75 | 125 | 6 | 94 | 5 | 81 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 75 % | 7 |
| Teeth | 951 | 22 | 630 | 630 | 277 | 22 | 66% | |||||
| Heart and Circulation | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 67% | 132 | |||
| Lungs | 8 | 14 | 22 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 73% | 77 | |
| Nervous System | 8 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 19 | ||||
| Skin | 4 | 338 | 342 | 342 | 288 | 54 | 100 | |||||
| Rickets | 3 | |||||||||||
| Deformities | 2 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 55% | 22 | ||
| Tuberculosis non- pulmonary | 3 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 89% | ||||
| Speech | ||||||||||||
| Vision and Squint | 150 | 195 | 345 | 34 | 299 | 4 | 284 | 11 | 12 | 87% | 3 | |
| Hearing | 5 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 91% | 252 | ||
| Miscellaneous | 14 | 236 | 250 | 1 | 245 | 193 | 49 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 98% | 3 |