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Barking 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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Details of the work carried out at your Orthopaedic Clinic will be found on
pages 165 and 166, and on pages 164, 167 and 168 will be found the report
of the Consulting Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mr. B. Whitchurch Howell.
(i) Heart Disease and Rheumatism.—Out of 5,374 children examined at routine
medical inspection, 183 were found to be suffering from some defect associated with
these diseases.
(j) Tuberculosis.—Nine cases of Tuberculosis amongst children of school-age
were notified to the Medical Officer of Health during the year. Of these, one was
pulmonary, and eight were non-pulmonary. In addition, one notified case of
Tuberculosis amongst school-children was transferred to this area. This case was
non-pulmonary.
The following table shows the position with regard to the notification of tuberculosis amongst school-children during 1937, and also the number removed from the "register" during this period:—
| Notified during 1937 (including transfers) | Pulmonary | 1 |
| Non-Pulmonary | 9 | |
| Total | 10 | |
| Removed from Register during 1937 | Pulmonary | 5 |
| Non-Pulmonary | 14 | |
| Total | 19 |
(k) Other Defects and Diseases.—A few cases of other defects and diseases, not
included in the above, were also seen at school medical inspection.
(6) FOLLOWING-UP.
A summary of the following-up work by your School Nurses is given herewith:—
| Number of visits to schools re medical inspection | 586 | ||||
| Total number of visits to schools | 806 | ||||
| Number of home visits in connection with:— | |||||
| 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | |
| (a) Routine medical inspections | 6,610 | 6,786 | 5,605 | 3,731 | 2,951 |