Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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(d) Ear Defects.—The Ear Clinic for the investigation and
treatment of ear disease held at the Mattock Lane and Ravenor Park
Health Centres once a fortnight was in the charge of Dr. Murdoch
MacGregor who is specially qualified for this work. Cases were
referred from the School Medical and Child Welfare Services.
The nature of the examinations and the methods of treatment
were similar to those outlined in the report for 1936.
The cases examined and the results of treatment were as m the two tables which follow:
Number of cases under treatment 31st December, 1936 | 56 |
Number of cases referred from Routine Medical Inspections in 1937 | 80 |
Number of cases referred from Inspection Clinics in 1937 | 67 |
Number of cases referred from Child Welfare Centres in 1937 | 15 |
Total | 218 |
In this table it will be noted that 218 cases altogether were
referred to the Clinic in 1937, an increase of 64 cases over the previous
year. New cases referred for treatment were 162, an increase of
32 over the previous year.
Diagnosis. | No. | Successfully treated and discharged. | Successfully treated and under observation. | Referred to hospital | still under treatment. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Acute Otitis Media | 30 | 22 | 5 | — | 3 |
Double Acute Otitis Media | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Chronic Otitis Media | 87 | 15 | 32 | 11 | 29 |
Double Chronic Otitis Media | 29 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 11 |
Catarrhal Deafness | 23 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
Wax | 9 | 9 | — | — | — |
Furunculosis | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Congenital Deafness | 1 | — | — | — | — |
Acute Mastoiditis | 1 | — | — | 1 | — |
Post Auricular Adenitis | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 |
Chronic Adhesive Process | 1 | — | — | — | — |
Otalgia | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
187 | 67 | 52 | 16 | 52 |