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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

Ealing 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]

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Table: TABLE II.TABLE OF SYMPTOMS(Including those for which the children were referred and others which were discovered at the diagnostic interview) 1. Nervous Disorders.

TABLE II.

TABLE OF SYMPTOMS

(Including those for which the children were referred and others which were discovered at the diagnostic interview) 1. Nervous Disorders.

Pears and anxiety15
Solitariness and unsociability6
Depression and lethargy2
23
2. Habit Disorders.
Enuresis28
Sleep disorders8
Habit spasms2
Feeding difficulties5
Epilepsy1
Hysterical symptoms9
Speech disorders9
Asthma4
Faecal incontinence3
Migraine1
70
3. Behaviour Disorders.
Delinquency (including stealing and lying)26
Difficult to manage at home50
„ „ „ school13
Aggression3
Truancy and absconding8
Sex difficulties6
Temper tantrums3
Bizarre symptoms—pre-psychotic?2
111
4. Educational Difficulties.
Backward22
School failure7
Advice on school placement6
work—
35
239

Table: TABLE III.Home Conditions—53Cases.

TABLE III.

Home Conditions—53Cases.

MotherFather
Dead3Dead3
Very dull or defective—Delinquent2
Psychotic or borderline1Psychotic or borderline3
Chronically neurotic5Chronically neurotic5
StepmotherParents
Psychotic—Divorced9
Cruel1Separated5
ChildPronounced marital disharmony7
Illegitimate1
Adopted8
Care and Protection or Care
of County5
In a Home2