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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 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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St. Giles' School, Addington.
| Total number of sessions | 205 | ||
| Total number of attendances | 1,387 | ||
| Average attendance per session | 7 | ||
| Total number of females | 21 | ||
| Total number of males | 17 | ||
| Total number of patients | 38 | ||
| Still under treatment | 24 | ||
| Complaints. | Male. | Female. | Total. |
| Flat Foot and K.K. | — | 6 | 6 |
| Scoliosis | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| Kyphosis | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Spastic Diplegia | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Hemiplegia | 1 | — | 1 |
| Infantile Paralysis | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| Lordosis | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Muscular dystrophy | — | 1 | 1 |
| Paresis | 1 | — | 1 |
| For breathing exercises | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 17 | 21 | 38 | |
SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE.
The year 1935 saw the establishment of a new clinic at
Waddon, to serve a large area with a school population of
approximately 4,600. The clinic is at the Waldrons, Duppas
Mill Lane, and several rooms of the house have been adapted to
make an excellent clinic. The dental surgery is a large, welllighted
room and has been adequately fitted with m0dern equipment.
The waiting room is well apart from the surgery, but
the recovery room adjoins the latter. The clinic serves as a fulltime
treatment centre for school children and maternity and child
welfare cases from the South Croydon and Waddon districts.
Since the clinic has been open the attendances have been
extremely go0d.
There are now two branch clinics, the other being at Selhurst,
which was opened in 1930.
The school dental service is staffed by four dental officers,
and their duties include the inspection and treatment of all
children attending the public elementary and central schools and
scholarship children attending the secondary schools. Patients