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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
Croydon 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| Total number of sessions | 203 | ||
| Total number of attendances | 1670 | ||
| Average attendance per session | 8 | ||
| Total number of females | 18 | ||
| Total number of males | 11 | ||
| Total number of patients | 29 | ||
| Still under treatment | 25 | ||
| Complaints. | Male. | Female. | Total. |
| Flat Foot and K.K. | — | 4 | 4 |
| Scoliosis | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Kyphosis | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Spastic Diplegia | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Hemiplegia | 1 | — | 1 |
| Infantile Paralysis | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| Lordosis | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Athetosis | — | 1 | 1 |
| Inco-ordination | 1 | — | 1 |
| Muscular dystrophy | — | 1 | 1 |
| Paresis | 1 | — | 1 |
| 11 | 18 | 29 | |
THE SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE.
I am indebted to the senior school dental Surgeon, Mr.
Pilbeam, for the particulars contained in this section of the report.
The school dental service is staffed by three dental officers.
Their duties include the inspection and treatment of all children
attending the public elementary and central schools and scholarship
children attending the secondary schools. and also of those patients
referred under Maternity and Child Welfare, Tuberculosis and
Mental Deficiency Schemes, and children attending special schools
for the partially sighted and physically defective. Children suffering
from dental deformities are referred to the Special Orthodontic
Clinic. Several visits have been made by the dental officers to
Mayday Hospital. The report of work done under the various
schemes appears elsewhere.
There has been only one change in personnel: Mr. K. C. B.
Webster, who accepted an appointment to the Hendon Borough
Council, resigned in September, and Mr. G. M. Davie was appointed
to fill the vacancy.