London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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EAR, NOSE AND THROAT SERVICE
Adults—
Mothers and Public School
Toddlers Scheme Children Total
Attendances 201 34 856 1,091
Cases which received
operative treatment 67 - 320 387
Cases which received
other forms of treatment
26 10 107 143
ORTHOPAEDIC CLINIC
Adults—
Mothers and Public School
Toddlers Scheme Children Total
Primary examination by
Surgeon 66 115 92 273
Re-examination by
Surgeon 14 38 57 109
New cases treated 504 466 478 1,448
Total Attendances for
treatment 4,052 11,441 5,618 21,111
TREATMENT OF DEFECTIVE VISION
Adults—
Mothers and Public School
Toddlers Scheme Children Total
Errors of Refraction, etc.,
requiring treatment 114 175 1,076 1,36s
Spectacles prescribed 76 138 652 866
SQUINT TRAINING
Sessions 505
Children attended 177
Attendances 2,521
Discharged—cured 55
SKIN CLINIC
Consultations Treatments
Sessions 51 153
Attendances:—
School Children 354 2,622
Mothers and Toddlers 295 490
Other categories (including Public Adult
Scheme) 203 576
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