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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

Barking 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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Table: (b) Deformities—Muscular.

(b) Deformities—Muscular.

(1) Congenital:
Torticollis4
Talipes6
(2) Acquired:
Pes planus25
Intoeing6
Scar—hand1
42

Table: (c) Paralysis.

(c) Paralysis.

Anterior poliomyelitis1
Facial paresis1
? Old hemiplegia1
Hemihypertrophy1
4

Table: (d) Miscellaneous.

(d) Miscellaneous.

Eversion right lower limb1
Pain in hip joint1
Re gait8
No diagnosis1
11
Total defects found130

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During the year six toddlers were admitted to hospital, five for operations and
one for observation, as follows:—
Operations :
Manipulation and plaster 3
Tenotomy Tendo Achilles and plaster 2
Supernumerary thumb—removal 1
Osteoclasis and plaster 2
Median stoffel 1
Observation 1
Total 10