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
Edmonton 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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Sunlight Clinic.
641 children were referred during the year for sunlight treatment and
2,880 treatments were given.
Ophthalmic Clinic.
Eighty-two children under 5 years of age attended this clinic during the
year. Fifty-three attendances were made for Refraction, 62 for reexamination
and 14 for Examination.
Birth Control Clinic.
Four women were referred to this clinic during the year.
Speech Clinic.
Arrangements are made with the Education Committee for children under
five years of age to attend the Speech Clinic and 5 children were referred
during the year.
Details of Distribution of Milk, Cod Liver Oil, etc.
Distributed by the Maternity and Child Welfare Department apart from
any scheme of. the Ministry of Food.
Trufood 195 tins.
Ostermilk 467 ,,
Cow and Gate 1,317 packets..
Cod Liver Oil and Malt 45 cartons.
Haly-calcyne 76 packets.
Glucose 66 „
Fersolate 26 „
Bemax 2 ,,
Free Meals.
During the year 5 applications were received, 3 of whom were granted
the supply of free meals at the British Restaurants.
Convalescent Cases.
Six children were sent away under the contract with the Invalid Children's
Aid Association and one child was still away at the beginning of the year who
had been sent during 1943.
Tonsils and Adenoids.
Thirty-two children were admitted to hospital for the removal of tonsils
and adenoids; of these 18 paid the full cost, one was free of charge, and 13
were through the Hospital Savings Association.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Twenty cases were notified during the year and of these 16 occurred in
the North Middlesex County Hospital, 4 of which were Edmonton cases. Of
3 cases which occurred in the district, one was removed to hospital; and one
notified from outside district.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Eighty-one cases were notified during the year and of this number 71
occurred in the North Middlesex County Hospital of which 16 were Edmonton
cases. Six cases occurred on the district and all were removed to the Isolation
Hospital, and 4 further cases were notified from the Mothers' Hospital, Clapton.
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